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  • Guide: How to scan old photos at home – Bookfactory

    Guide: How to scan old photos at home – Bookfactory

    A great way to make photo books more original is to combine new mobile and camera pictures with old photos from family albums. Just like your own family, your grandparents…


  • LOCKDOWN – The illustrated book

    LOCKDOWN – The illustrated book

    Corona has changed everything. To make the best of the lockdown, photographer Alex Lörtscher took pictures of otherwise busy places that were suddenly deserted. The results are impressive, thought-provoking photographs,…


  • Interview with Noe Van Messel

    Interview with Noe Van Messel

    Noe Van Messel – explosive, powerful, dynamic and consistent. All qualities that have made him a swinging star and today ensure that he is not even accommodated by the current…


  • Photographing sunsets – tips for taking pictures

     It is always nice to experience impressive sunsets or sunrises. Have you already tried to photograph the beautiful colours and were disappointed with the result? The following tips will help…


  • I can also take pictures with a shoebox

    I can also take pictures with a shoebox

    Alberto Venzago is a reportage photographer, photo artist, filmmaker; widely travelled, much admired, highly decorated. Always on the run, always looking for the next thing. And usually he finds it…


  • The Canadian/Swiss photographer Dawna Mueller is a passionate advocate for the planet. Mueller uses her powerful images to engage in a narrative about nature and climate change in fragile ecosystems.…


  • Interview with Hans Burkhardt

    Interview with Hans Burkhardt

    Learned profession? 4-year training as a bookbinder in Neuchâtel. Afterwards 4 years of travelling and journeyman’s years in Paris, London and Rome. In addition, 4 years of training as a…


  • Most of us will return from our summer holidays with hundreds of photos, and although some of them will probably feature on our Instagram or Facebook pages for a while,…