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È Così la Vita

The island Sardinia is one of five Blue Zones, the regions of the world where people live much longer than average. In remote villages in the heartland of Sardinia live the oldest people in Europe. Their way of life is largely unchanged for generations, and in some way these island people are unaffected by the outside world. I visited some of these pristine parts and photographed the villagers and their surroundings.

The series „È Così la Vita“, which translates to „That‘s what life is like“, illustrates my perspective of an existence close to nature and the mysticism surrounding the long lives of these Sardinians.

Nôtre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp

My experience visiting the chapel at Ronchamp mingles reverence with a sense of safety. I‘m studying the play of light in the interior and the way the building changes depending on the weather and the time of day, sometimes generating mystical moods. Taking a photojournalistic approach to the task of portraying the work, my concentration on selected aspects and details make the building as such fade into the background, bringing to the fore those images that convey atmosphere rather than a self-contained narrative.

On the occasion of th exhibition „Architecture Icons Revisited“ at Pavillon Le Corbusier, Zurich (April-November 2022), I had the privilege of photographing Notre-Dame-du-Haut, one of.              Le Corbusier‘s key works that has already been photographed many times.

Lea Meienberg

Lea Meienberg is a freelance photographer based in Zurich. She has been working for editorial, corporate and advertising clients since 2008.

Born in Switzerland in 1982, Lea majored in art and media design at the F+F School of Arts and Design in Zurich.

She has completed assignments and personal projects in Berlin, New York, Hongkong and across the African continent in countries such as Angola, Tanzania and Kenya.

Specializing in portrait and reportage photography, her work gets printed by major international publishing houses and appears in magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times, The Telegraph, Die Zeit, Du Magazin, Libération, Monocle and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Lea is represented by Schönbucher Fotografen and is a networker of 13Photo agency.

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Zurich, Zurich

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Awards

  • 2020Prix de la Photographie Paris, Bronze in Fine Arts, Paris FR
  • The Lenzburg Photo Festival, Finalist in the category projects, Lenzburg, Switzerland
  • 2018AFAR Travel Photography Award, Finalist, San Francisco, USA
  • 2011Prix Photo, Fondation BAT, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2008Vfg Young Talents Award, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2007Vfg Young Talents Award, 2nd place, Zürich, Switzerland

Exhibitions

  • 2022"Nôtre-Dame-du-Haut", Architecture Icons Revisited, Group Show at Pavillon Le Corbusier, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2021"È Così la Vita", Never Stop Reading, Zürich, Switzerland
  • "È Così la Vita", Riaperture Photofestival, Factory Grisu, Ferrara, Italy
  • 2020"È Così la Vita", Times under pressure, Group Show at The Lenzburg Photo Festival, Switzerland
  • 2011"My Deer Freedom", Prix Photo, Group Show, Kornhaus Bern, Switzerland
  • 2008"Beyond Recall", Vfg Young Talents Award, Group Show, Zürich, Geneva and Basel, Switzerland
  • 2007"05.34h", Soirée Shot, Contemporary Photography Auction, Theater Basel, Switzerland
  • "28.03.06, 05.24", Vfg Young Talents Award, Group Show, Zürich, Geneva and Basel, Switzerland

Publications

  • 2022Mazumbai - Eine Familiengeschichte zwischen Tansania und der Schweiz Hier und Jetzt Verlag für Kultur und Geschichte, ISBN 978-3-03919-565-7