The Apollo conquest of space by man

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Didier Ruef

I just wanted to celebrate today the landing of Apollo 11, the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. I remember looking at the event fifty years ago on a black and white television with my grandparents in South of France.

I was so amused to shoot this picture in New York at Union Square with the Flat Iron Building as scenography.

Astronauts on Union Square in New York City (click image to enlarge)

Société de lecture – Recycle

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Didier Ruef

Thanks to my friend Francisco Teixera from the Leica Store Genève for the picture shot on November 14, 208 at Société de lecture in Geneva.

My book Recycle is on the library shelf in the middle of books by masters of photography, Henri Cartier Bresson and Berenice Abbot, Robert Frank and Ansel Adams, Gilles Caron and Diane Arbus, Brassai and Eliott Erwitt. It is a great privilege to be among these great photographers.

Société de lecture de Genève. Bibliothèque. Recycle. November 14, 2018.

Recycle, published in 2011 by Labor et Fides (french-english languages). 24×32 cm, 320 pages. Hard cover. 238 B&W Duplex. Photography Didier Ruef. Texts: Matthieu Ricard, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Bertrand Charrier. Carried out between 1991 and 2008 on the themes of waste, sustainability and recycling, Didier Ruef captured a variety of situations which reveals the face of humanity behind the waste it produces, recycles or has to endure.

You can order the book on www.didierruef.com.

Lecture on Sostenibilità nel prisma della fotografia – Università degli studi di Milano

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Didier Ruef

I was invited to give a lecture about “Sostenibilità nel prisma della fotografia” on Monday the 12th of November 2018 at the Università degli studi di Milano, Italy.

My talk was about my book Recycle and the themes of waste, sustainability and recycling. I show my pictures which captured a variety of situations revealing the face of humanity behind the waste it produces, recycles or has to endure.

“Sostenibilità nel prisma della fotografia” in Università degli studi di Milano (PDF)

More pictures from the book Recycle on www.didierruef.com

Lecture – Università degli studi di Milano. Sostenibilità nel prisma della fotografia

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Didier Ruef

I am invited to give a lecture about “Sostenibilità nel prisma della fotografia” on Monday the 12th of November 2018 at the Università degli studi di Milano.

I will talk about my book Recycle and the themes of waste, sustainability and recycling. I captured a variety of situations revealing the face of humanity behind the waste it produces, recycles or has to endure.

“Sostenibilità nel prisma della fotografia” in Università degli studi di Milano (PDF)

More pictures from the book Recycle on www.didierruef.com

Swissmem Network – Zwei sind besser als einer

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Didier Ruef

On the latest issue (3/18) of Swissmem Network, you can look at my portraits of the brothers Claudio and Nicola Tettamanti, and their company Tecnopinz SA in Mezzovico, Canton Ticino, Switzerland.

“Zwei sind besser als einer” in Swissmem Network (PDF)

More pictures on www.didierruef.com

Republik – Darf man Sex kaufen ?

Posted on September 22, 2018 by Didier Ruef

On the issue (July 13 17, 2018) of Republik, you can look at my picture on Prostitution in Switzerland.

Republik. July 13, 2018

More pictures on Prostitution in Switzerland on www.didierruef.com

The New Yorker – Guns in America

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Didier Ruef

“The link between America’s lax gun laws and the violence that fuels immigration » in The New Yorker from March 22, 2018, with a picture from my guns in America’s reportage.

The New Yorker. March 22, 2018. © Didier Ruef / Visum / Redux

More pictures on http://www.didierruef.com

Générations – Mario Botta

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Didier Ruef

On the latest issue (March 2018) of Générations, you can look at my portrait from the architect Mario Botta in his office in Mendrisio, Canton Ticino, Switzerland.