Paare / Couples

Couples are omnipresent in photography – in historical photo albums just as much as on Instagram. More fascinating than the countless idealised self-portraits though, are those shots in which couples do not pose, but seem to be genuinely themselves, and strangely detached: playing and courting, enamoured and intoxicated, desperate and clinging. Or lonely and lost. The current exhibition at Fotostiftung Schweiz is dedicated to the diversity of couple dynamics in photography and presents pictures in which something happens between two people.