ANNE GOLAZ

Born in Switzerland in 1983, Anne Golaz studied at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, where she graduated in 2013 with a Master thesis On photobooks and narrative. She previously studied at the Vevey School of Photography between 2004 and 2008. Anne Golaz's artistic practice is characterized by an interest in story-telling with a multidisciplinary approach incorporating photography, drawing and text. In 2010, she won the comptetition of the Enquête Photographique du canton de Fribourg with a work entitled Chasses about hunting and the relation to wilderness in contemporary society. In Finland, she realized Metsästä (From the Woods), which won the Light award at the 2012 Vevey Image Festival. Then she published Corbeau with MACK and exhibited this work on numerous occasions in Switzerland and abroad. Corbeau was one of the best photo books selected by Aperture Paris in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Nouveau Prix Découverte at the Rencontres photographiques d'Arles in 2018. Anne Golaz is represented by the Galerie C in Neuchâtel / Paris and regularly lectures at the Vevey School of Photography. She is currently working on her coming book La Casa Isla for a publication with MACK in fall 2025, and on other projects evoking the rural world, distance, emigration, mourning and memory.