Most of my ethnographic projects in the greater Himalayan region also included the visual documentation of the ethnic groups and regions focused on. Out of this work and my research projects in Visual Anthropology, a true passion for photography developed over the years. My former hobby became a constant companion and today I try to include ‘visual work’ into every new undertaking.

Over the last 10 years a large photographic archive of Nepal, Northeast India and other regions has been created. For most of the more than 20’000 images I collected, detailed descriptions are kept in a database, to make them usable for ethnographic research.

The materials on Nepal have been collected since 2001 and focus on the Kirat Rai of Eastern Nepal, their Shamanistic rituals, everyday life and environment. Some parts of the collection also feature other regions of Nepal like the Kathmandu valley, the Terai, Mustang, the Annapurna and Gosainkund regions.

The materials related to my yearly research visits to Northeast India (Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya) have been collected since 2003. They focus on the tribal groups  subsumed under the ethnonym Naga, their material culture, architecture, everyday life and environment aswell as topics of identity and multiple modernities.

A great number of my photographs have been published in various publications, ranging from scientific books to newspapers and teaching materials. If you are interested in my photographic archive, please contact me via the “Contact” page.

 

Coming up : Photography Blog

Soon, I will start to publish a photography blog, which will be occasionally updated with interesting images and topics I found while going through my archive. Please visit again or let me know if I can inform you when the first entries go online.