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Born in Switzerland in 1983, Anne Golaz graduated in 2013 from the Photography Master Program of Aalto University of Art and Design in Helsinki. She wrote her master thesis «On Photobooks and Narratives». Previously she studied at the Photography School in Vevey and in 2012 she spent 6 months in NYC at the School of Visual Arts. Her photographic approach deals mainly with the representation of rural communities and questions fundamental notions such as the sense of belonging to a place or the complex relation with nature. Anne Golaz’s first work Rural Scenes has been exhibited in several places mainly in Switzerland and France since 2008. Her series Chasses (Hunting Games) was published by Infolio in 2010 and among the selected works for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in New York. Anne Golaz was part of the young photographers selected for the publication and the exhibition ReGeneration2. Her Finnish series Metsästä (From The Woods) was exhibited for the first time in the Images Festival 2012 in Vevey CH and in several places since that. Metsästä was published by Kehrer Verlag and part of the selection of the best photobooks of 2012 by the Aperture Paris Photo First Book Award. Anne Golaz is also a member of the Finnish artists collective Maanantai, and their common projects Nine Nameless Mountains and Between the Flashes of the Lighthouse. She has currently several projects ongoing mainly in Finland, Switzerland, France, USA. She enjoys teaching occasionally photography, narrative and photobook conceptualization. Together with Myriam Ziehli she created Aaluägä books, a collection of photobooks based in Lausanne represented during several photobook fairs and festival. She is represented by the gallery C in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and just published her last book Corbeau (Mack, September 2017) made over a twelve-year period.
