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Brigitte Kraus Photographer & Artist

Brigitte Kraus (*1962) daughter of Elfriede (Hannah) Perschel-Steinkellner and Adolf Sylvester Perschel is a Swiss born photographer and artist that lived from 1994 until 2011 and again from 2016 to 2018 in various countries, those giving her the inspiration for her contemporary photo art concept.

Over the years, she specialized in architecture and landscape photography. She also started to publish people stories with a conscious undertone of social criticism through photo reportages on the ground. Since 2020, she moved to another level with her art photography of harmonic combinations of structures and colors. She is creating her own style of digital collages in a multi-dimensional overlay of her collections. Most of her artistic oeuvre has been inspired by a fusion of places and events that captivates and takes the viewers on an adventurous journey to anywhere and nowhere.

EARLY LIFE After her marriage in 1994 she moved to Yaounde, Cameroon. Only a year later she gave birth to her only child in Cairo, Egypt, where the young family setteled down for the coming three years. Brigitte Kraus started to study photography at the New York Institute of Photography, a distant learning curriculum of three years. By 1998 the Kraus family moved to Asia for the first time and while living in downtown Beijing, the Chinese culture and architecture started to influence Brigitte Kraus's photography. Guam, an exotic pacific Island was added to her living and working destinations before moving back to the Middle East in 2004. In Dubai Brigitte Kraus received for the first time public attention during a international GPP event where she was awarded with the first prize in both architecture and marketing & stock photography.

EXHIBITIONS

2020 - "Gefühle 2020", Gallery KunstZürichSüd, Adliswil, Switzerland

2020 - “intuitiv kreativ", Gallery KunstZürichSüd, Adliswil, Switzerland

2020 - "Uprooted", Swissartexpo, Zurich, Switzerland

2020 - "Architecture and Landscape", Photobastei Zurich, Switzerland

2019 - "Collage and the making of worlds", Fortress Hohensalzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

2016 - "Montage", Fortress Hohensalzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

2015 - "The other side of Mongolia", photoSchweiz, Zurich, Switzerland

2014 - "Self-Portrait", vfg Zurich, Switzerland

2014 - "Mongolia", Schloss Weinberg, Kefermarkt, Austria AWARDS

2020 SPC, Photobastei Zurich, CH; Nominated

2008 Swiss Photo Award, Zurich, CH; Nominated

2007 Reportage, GPP, Dubai, UAE; 1. prize

2005 Architecture photography, GPP, Dubai, UAE; 1. prize

2005 Marketing and Stock photography, GPP, Dubai, UAE; 1. prize PRESS

2020 Pressetext.com, SwissArtExpo Zürich

2020 Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

2015 Gossauer Newspaper (CH), Schattenseiten der Mongolei

2006 Profil Magazine (UAE), Eine Reise um die Welt in Bildern

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