About Didier Ruef | Photography
Didier Ruef was born in 1961 in Geneva. After having graduated in Economics at the University of Geneva he took up photojournalism at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. His photo-reportages are inscribed in time and focus on showing human beings, their environment as well as the ecological problems created by man.
Since returning to Switzerland in 1987, he has started to work as a freelance documentary photographer and photojournalist and has visited all five continents, with a preference for Africa.
He was a member of the Network Photographers Agency in London from 1991 to 1997 and a founding member of Pixsil from 2002 to 2009.
He is currently represented by the photo agencies Cosmos in France, Luz Photo in Italy and Visum in Germany.
He has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières, the Global Fund, the World Council of Churches, the Swiss Red Cross and the Syngenta Foundation.
Ruef's photographs have been published in major international magazines and newspapers, such as Time, The Observer Magazine, Daily Telegraph, Le Monde, El Pais Semanal, Geo, Marie Claire, Ogonyok, D La Republica, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Das Magazin, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
He has presented his work in various individual exhibitions, in Switzerland at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Völkerkundemuseum Zürich, Musée de l'Elysée. Lausanne. And abroad at The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman; Bibliothèque Municipale de Bordeaux, France; The Substation, Singapore; 10th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, China.
Didier Ruef has published four books: in 1998 Paysans de nos montagnes | Editions Monographic and in German translations as Bauern am Berg | Offizin Verlag and in Italian as Vita di montagna | Edizioni Casagrande; in 2005 Afrique Noire | Infolio Editions; in 2007 Enfants Prisonniers | DiDé; in 2011 Recycle | Labor et Fides in french and english and Recycle | Edizioni Casagrande in italian and german.
Didier Ruef is based in Lugano, Switzerland.
Since returning to Switzerland in 1987, he has started to work as a freelance documentary photographer and photojournalist and has visited all five continents, with a preference for Africa.
He was a member of the Network Photographers Agency in London from 1991 to 1997 and a founding member of Pixsil from 2002 to 2009.
He is currently represented by the photo agencies Cosmos in France, Luz Photo in Italy and Visum in Germany.
He has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières, the Global Fund, the World Council of Churches, the Swiss Red Cross and the Syngenta Foundation.
Ruef's photographs have been published in major international magazines and newspapers, such as Time, The Observer Magazine, Daily Telegraph, Le Monde, El Pais Semanal, Geo, Marie Claire, Ogonyok, D La Republica, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Das Magazin, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
He has presented his work in various individual exhibitions, in Switzerland at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Völkerkundemuseum Zürich, Musée de l'Elysée. Lausanne. And abroad at The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman; Bibliothèque Municipale de Bordeaux, France; The Substation, Singapore; 10th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, China.
Didier Ruef has published four books: in 1998 Paysans de nos montagnes | Editions Monographic and in German translations as Bauern am Berg | Offizin Verlag and in Italian as Vita di montagna | Edizioni Casagrande; in 2005 Afrique Noire | Infolio Editions; in 2007 Enfants Prisonniers | DiDé; in 2011 Recycle | Labor et Fides in french and english and Recycle | Edizioni Casagrande in italian and german.
Didier Ruef is based in Lugano, Switzerland.