With his camera, Zurich-born Alberto Venzago moves masterfully between reportage and advertising, between documentation and staging. Through gripping photo essays and films, he critically documents world events and tells moving stories — from Zurich’s Platzspitz park and the voodoo cult of Benin to child prostitution in Manila. As a concerned photographer, Venzago avoids no scene, whether the organised crime of the Japanese yakuza or the long revolution in Iran. Counterbalancing these reportages are his carefully composed and constructed image worlds, created as campaigns for international brands or as dazzling stagings of world-famous stars. Venzago’s first-ever museum exhibition is an opulent retrospective of his work as a photographer and filmmaker.
