Meet the photographers & instructors
Meet with our passionate and qualified team, an exclusive selection among the best photographers in Geneva & Lausanne. Working with them will make your learning fun, engaging and rewarding!
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Instructors who teach in french can be found at the french version of this page.
Oguzhan (Osan) Altun
Altun Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Beginners, Intermediate, Night, Lightroom, Photoshop
Osan left his corporate career in 2013 to follow his passion of photography. After graduating from New York Film Academy, he founded Swiss Photo Club to share his passion and create a community. He is specialised in Event, Wedding and portrait photography. He’s an avid traveller, with a considerable collection of landscape photos. He is also a certified Adobe Photoshop instructor.
Osan continuously strives to show something special about his subject and push the boundaries every time. His teaching style is crisp, to the point, and focused on getting the participant practice what she/he learned.
His portfolio is available at his website Altun Photography.
Julia Wimmerlin
Julia Wimmerlin Photography
CITY: Lausanne, Geneva
CLASSES: Beginners, Intermediate, Lightroom, Photoshop, Mobile
Julia is Ukrainian-born photographer living in La Côte region, Switzerland. After she left her native Kiev, she lived in France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Japan and the Philippines. She has degrees in Economics and Marketing that helped her to have a successful international marketing career for 15 years which she happily changed for photography in 2014.
Being nearly totally self-taught, she relies a lot on her advertising and marketing experience when constructing an image. Julia loves photography as a whole and will always bring something personal whether it’s a business portrait or a famous landmark. Her strength is her creative approach combined with true emotions. Julia’s most famous images come from her travel, wildlife and creative portraiture having won international awards and being published internationally. Julia’s commercial specialization is in portrait, editorial/fashion and architecture. Julia is a regular contributor to the PhotoVogue site of Vogue Italia.
After winning the GPC Photo Awards jury prize in spring 2017, Julia joined Geneva Photo Club to share her passion and she is very much looking forward to welcome you into one of the many classes she’s teaching.
Elisabeth Fransdonk
Emotion in Photography
CITY: Lausanne
CLASSES: Beginners, Intermediate, Lightroom, Mobile
After having worked in advertising for many years, Elisabeth made the switch to the creative side and started her own photo studio EMO PHOTO 10 years ago. This switch allowed her to combine all her skills in one field: psychology by training, marketing communication by experience and photography by passion.
Her speciality in photography is Emotion, which shows in the very human approach she has developed over the years, focusing on revealing through photography the strength, beauty and authenticity of each person or service. She works in a number of fields of photography, like Architecture, Landscape, Portrait, Food, Fashion and Corporate Photography. She has had publications in a large number of magazines, and a large variety of examples of her work can be found on her website, on her Facebook page and on her Instagram account where she posts all her photos made with her iPhone.
As passionate as she is about her work, she is equally passionate about sharing her Love of Light as she calls it, and she is very much looking forward to welcome you into one of the many classes organised by Geneva Photo Club in Lausanne.
Elisabeth speaks 5 languages and can communicate in English, French, German, Dutch and Spanish.
Eugene Theodore
Eugene Theodore Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Studio / Portraiture, Fashion
Eugene Theodore International Fashion and PR photographer. Expert in creating and capturing visual narratives with an authentic touch.
Eugene has been behind the lens for over 15 years, working internationally for corporate and private clients. He has been featured in New York’s EXPOSURE Gallery, been a Malta Fashion Week Fashion Photographer Finalist and had solo exhibitions in Scotland.
Trained at VOGUE and Studio Harcourt Paris, Eugene draws upon his experience in architectural and landscape photography to create a fashion fusion of unique and previously untold stories across colourful environments. At home shooting the CEO of a Fortune 500 and at play shooting the latest top designer collection in the Sahara, Eugene works equally well in-studio or on-location. However, his talent is most evident when he has the full resources of a site at his disposal.
Eugene is based between Geneva and London, frequently traveling across the globe on assignments taking him from the Fashion Week catwalks of Milan to underground rivers in Iceland. He is available for beauty and fashion assignments, executive portraits, corporate events and travel immersions.
András Barta
András Barta Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Beginners, Lightroom
András is a self-taught freelance photographer specializing in food, events, and product photography.
With varied work experiences under his belt and a keen interest in entrepreneurship, marketing, and branding, he uses photography as a creative outlet as well as a tool for engagement and communication.
András’ result-driven approach to photography uses all available tools at the disposal of the modern-day photographer. It’s that approach he shares in the Beginners Photography and Lightroom Courses.
He is fluent in English and French
Olivier Borgognon
Olivier Borgognon Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Portrait, Commercial, Outdoors Lifestyle Photography
EARLY ADOPTER DISRUPTIVE PHOTOGRAPHER
Have you ever imagined a place where you could give back to the world what you have received as a gift? I firmly believe we are here for a purpose, for a specific reason, and that we are working our way through the discovery of our deepest soul in order to deliver our message to the world.
As a photographer, I visualise, conceptualise, document, research and blend it all together in order to create content, with a touch of my own, my “touche personnelle” as we would say in French.
Finding our purpose in life is challenging, it takes a lot of questioning and introspection, and I have found mine through photography. And the question is, why am I a photographer?
From childhood, I have wanted to help others, to share knowledge, share information, make the world a better place. As many, I have travelled through many life cycles, and passed through many failures and to some success stories, but they have always had a common element: Taking part in building greatness of others!
I stand here before you, through my work and who I am, to share my knowledge and my experience as a commercial & outdoors lifestyle photographer, in order to create unique work, powerful imagery and take part in the visual story of your brand.
Georges Altman
Georges Altman Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Beginners, Intermediate, Adolescents, Photoshop
Can’t help but scribble “mouths” when he has a pencil in his hands, Georges Altman develops from an early age an ability to produce images, on any support at hand, to the dismay of teachers having crossed his path. Compulsive drawing led him to study visual communication in Lausanne and Geneva, where he enthusiastically discovered video and photography.
Graduated as a visual communication designer, he worked for a while as a freelancer, but after a few years he left the world of graphic design for photography, which gave him much more freedom. Working as a visual arts teacher since 2007, he has also created his own photo studio in Carouge in 2010. Photography is fast becoming his main activity. Since 2015 he’s also working in an association as a designer and director of audio-visual educational content aimed at fighting discrimination.
Even if he touches everything in his photo mandates, the subjects allowing him to create expressive characters or polard’s atmospheres, as before with the drawing, are by far his favorites. Thus, the details, the scars and the chiaroscuro are quite natural in his portraits as in his architectural photos.
Fedi Gioia
Fedi Gioia Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Beginners, Intermediate
Fedi was born in Italy and lived in Spain, England, Germany and since 2016 she lives in Switzerland. Passionate about photography since she was a child, she is experienced working in the digital marketing field. After a five years of corporate work, she took the decision to be a full time photographer. She enjoys telling stories via my images and her passion for food brought her to assist food photographers in London and specialising in food photography. She also enjoys taking pictures of anything that capture her attention and normally she works in portraiture, events, wedding, lifestyle and corporate. She speaks fluently Italian, Spanish, french, English and she has an intermediate level of German and Portuguese.
“Capturing moments and being able to tell a story through a photo camera is my passion and my job and I believe is magic.”
Her work is visible here www.fedigioia.com.
Christine Herman-Vetter
Sweet Dots Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Beginners, Intermediate, Photoshop
Christine was born and raised in Vienna, Austria.
She started working as a self-taught event photographer during her university studies in Vienna and moved to Geneva in 2011 to pursue her studies.
After working in event management in the United States she moved back to Geneva in 2015. This is when she decided to pursue her passion and love for photography.
She became a certified professional photographer in 2017 and followed various workshops to define her style over the years. She does both studio and outdoor photography.
With ‘Sweet Dots Photography’ she specializes in what she calls ‘happy moments/memory photography’: maternity, newborn, baby & child, family and couple portraiture. ‘I believe that not only remembering special moments in life but also capturing these true emotions for later is essential.’
She is fluent in English, French and German
Discover more about Christine and see more of her work at: www.sweetdotsphotography.com
Malini Pittet
Malini Pittet Photography
CITY: Lausanne
CLASSES: Wildlife Photography
Following a decade of working as a researcher in wildlife conservation, specialising in large field ecology, Malini Pittet turned to wildlife photojournalism. The reason for the change in career was based on the possibility to reach a greater audience to create awareness about conservation through photography and story-telling.
Malini was born and brought up in India and moved to Europe to attend university. She completed a Master degree in Biodiversity Conservation and Management at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent. Her various research projects gave her the opportunity to study leopards and tigers in India, Arabian leopards in Yemen as well as jaguars, pumas and ocelots in the Peruvian Amazon. Malini loves travelling and photographing wildlife around the world. Her travels have taken her to many countries around the world such as Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, , Oman, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Madagascar, Seychelles, Brazil and many more!
The combination of wildlife photography and travelling brings together a perfect combination, something Malini is keen to share. Learn about wildlife and nature photography with Malini and use these skills on your next nature holiday.
Discover more about Malini and see some of her work at: www.malinipittet.com
Samuel Zelller
Samuel Zeller Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: For FujiFilm Cameras: Beginners, Intermediate
Samuel is a freelance photographer based in Geneva. He draw on his past designer career to create images that are clean, precise and carefully composed. He strive to find beauty even in the coldest of industrial locations. His work has been published internationally.
He specialize in editorial, architecture and industrial photography. In 2015 he became a Fujifilm ambassador for Switzerland. He now gives Fujifilm, architecture and street photography private trainings with at Swiss Photo Club.
Tomek Gola
Gola Pro Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Portrait Photography, Action Photography
Tomek Gola has been professional photographer for more than a decade. His clients include: Red Bull, National Geographic, Huawei, GE, Dr Irena Eris among others.
Besides commercial work he focuses on personal projects, which have won him recognition in polish and international photo contests.
Tomek holds BA degree at the Institute of Creative Photography in Czech Republic.
Tomek is based in Geneva, Switzerland and Warsaw, Poland, but operates worldwide.
Igor Khromov
Mr Kioff
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Street, Video
Igor is self-taught photographer from Ukraine. He began his photography journey as a Geneva street photographer.
In 2009 he has joined FlickR and participated in the project 365. Very soon his works were noticed by Getty Images team and he was invited join Getty Images Creatives.
Igor believes that straight out of camera photos could be fantastic, but to make them unique you have to edit them. He uses Lightroom for basic editing and Photoshop for some serious retouch.
If you want to learn how to turn your ordinary photo to an extraordinary one then, then join his Street Photography Course.
Placido Faranda
Placido Faranda Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Drone / Aerial Photography
Placido Faranda is an Award-winning and Worldwide published (National Geographic, Lonely planet, Vanity Fair, ABCnews, GQ etc.) aerial photographer whose style reflects a constant quest for new landscape colors and contrasts. Placido has been passionate about photography for over 10 years, combining DSLR and mirrorless camera technology to shoot travel and street photography.
Since 2016 he’s focused exclusively on drone photography, with a very distinctive top-down style that’s gained international attention on social media (TOP 50 aerial photographer of 2016 on Instagram’s @FROMWHEREIDRONE, an authority on aerial photography).
In 2017, his picture “Lady in Red” was a finalist at the Sony World Photography Awards (travel category), placing it in the top 10 of 105,692 images entered from 182 countries. The same picture was also included in the World Photography Organization’s Sony Awards Traveling Exhibitions in London, Milan, Paris and Berlin. Another of his pictures, “Solidified Lava vs Forest” was awarded second place at the 2017 PX3, Prix de la Photographie Paris (landscape category). “Solidified Lava vs Forest” gained further worldwide exposure after being featured on National Geographic’s homepage as the “Picture of the day” in the United States, China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Brazil and Portugal. In October 2017 the picture was awarded second place at the IPA (International Photography Awards) and chosen by the awards’ curator for the “IPA Best of Show” exhibition in New York. In November 2017 “Solidified Lava vs Forest” was awarded 1st place at ND awards 2017 and chosen over 6849 entries from 89 countries.
In 2018, for the second year in a row, his picture “The Big Meringue” is finalist at the Sony World Photography Awards (Landscape and Nature category) placing it in the top 10 of 129,338 images entered from 183 countries. In June 2018 the same picture was awarded Winner of “San Francisco Bay International Photo Show 2018”.
Ronald Patrick
Ronald Patrick Photography
CITY: Geneva, Lausanne
CLASSES: Documentary, Street Photography
Ronald Patrick was born and raised in Santiago de Chile. After completing his studies on Business and Economics, and working in the corporate world in San Francisco for 3 years, he decided to fully engage for his passion for photography to shed light on untold human experiences.
Since 2008, he has been working in the photo-documentary field as well as in corporate photography. He has worked on personal projects and commissioned work all over the world, having published in Time Magazine, Stern, Monocle, Vice, In-Lan, The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Lens Culture, Friday Magazine, Tagesspiegel and The Wall Street Journal, amongst others.
Corporate clients include Nike, The North Face, Lan Airlines, Ultramar Group, Copec, Government of Chile, Bloomberg and many more.
To this date, he has also published 4 photography books and his work has been exhibited in solo and collectively in various galleries and photo festivals in the USA, Spain, Japan, Georgia, Cambodia and Chile.
Riccardo Galardi
Riccardo Galardi Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Travel Photography
Born in Florence (ITALY) in 1981, Riccardo has been passionate about science, physics, and photography since he was a child.
His father taught him how to use an old manual camera at a young age, and since then Riccardo has never stopped applying his creativity to his pictures. Astrophotography, Macro and Panorama are the first images impressed on 35mm using analog technique, He love spend time along the Tuscan area, discovering places, enjoying the good food and slow riding with his Vespa.
“Bring the camera wherever you bring your eyes.” These few words of Riccardo’s describe his pictures displayed today and, also, his lifestyle.
Claudio Flocco
Claudio Flocco Photography
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Travel Photography
Claudio is a freelance photographer based in Geneva. He has been enthusiast discovering the world of photography since he was a child, and even time-consuming studies and personal obstacles could not suppress Claudio’s passion for photography.
Since ten years he has made this skill a profession and a way of life, capturing the beauty which lies all around us everywhere, every day.
Claudio identifies himself professionally with a quote from William Faulkner: “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
Marc Bader
Grande Image
CITY: Geneva
CLASSES: Videography, Video Editing
Marc Bader is the owner and founder of the video production Grande Image.
Driven by curiosity, he was always fascinated by the psychological and visual aspects of filmmaking.
Marc grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and studied at the Film Academy in Vienna, Austria, to become a director. After the studies, he made several videos for big organisations like the IAEA (Int’l Atomic Energy Agency), focussing on human interest stories.
2006 Marc moved to Prague, the Czech Republic, to work as a freelance filmmaker and cameraman.
Since 2016, he has been living with his family in Geneva, Switzerland, the city of peace.
Marc speaks fluently English, French, German and Czech.