About
Anna-Tia Buss is a Swiss photographer based in Zurich and Geneva. Her artistic practice questions the feeling of belonging, identity and the experience of being a woman in our society. The projects are mainly photographically based, with touches of multimedia. In several of her works she explores a collaborative approach, inviting the participants to get involved in the creation of the works.
Anna-Tia is a member of the Swiss photographer association Near, The Pool Collective & Women Photograph.
Clients include: Tages Anzeiger, Times Magazin, NZZ, TX Group, Buzzfeed, Le Temps, Die Zeit, Beobachter Magazin, SRF3, Mooris.ch, UNHCR
Available for assignments and collaborations!
Contact
Switzerland
+41 (0)76 546 77 95
Education
2016 - 2019 - BA Visual Communication - Camera Arts, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
2019 - «Transcending documentary: storytelling as a tool for social change» with Tanya Habjouqa, International Summer School of Photography (ISSP) in Zalenieki, Latvia
2018 - Erasmus semester at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, Aarhus, Denmark.
2018 - Canon Student Programme at Visa Pour l’Image
2013 - 2015 - Swiss Federal Capacity Diploma for photography (CFC) at CEPV, Vevey, Switzerland.
Exhibitions
2024
Pomegranates grow in winter - outdoor exhibition in FotoforumZug, January 2024 - March 2024, Zoug, Switzerland
2023
Pomegranates grow in winter - collective exhibition in Photoforum Pasquart , December 2023 - January 2024, Biel, Switzerland
Pomegranates grow in winter - Exhibition and book presentation at Never Stop Reading, October 2023, Zürich, Switzerland
Near group exhibition - Musée d’art de Pully, March-June 2023, Pully, Switzerland
2022
I never realized - group exhibition at Jungkunst, October 2022, Winterthur, Switzerland
I never realized - collective exhibition at Athens Photo Festival, at the Benaki Museum, June-July 2022, Athens, Greece
I never realized - collective exhibition from the Pool Collective, OnCurating, September 2022, Zürich, Switzerland
2021
They say time heals everything - Installation in collective exhibition "Past Perfect" at Kunstpavillion , October 2021 , Lucerne, Switzerland
Pomegranates grow in winter - book dummy exhibited at Riga Self publish 2021 at the ISSP Gallery, June-July 2021, Riga, Latvia
Delirium Of The Night - Commission work for the Electron Festival 21, resulting in a collective exhibition at Le Commun, April - Mai 2021, Geneva, Switzerland
2020
Pomegranates grow in winter - book dummy international exhibition tour Kassel Book Dummy Award 2020
I never realized - collective exhibition at Corinthian Photography Festival at Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, November 2020, Corinth, Greece
2019
I never realized - collective exhibition "Positionen zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen" at Kunstpavillion ,August - September 2019, Lucerne, Switzerland
I never realized - "print" collective exhibition of the India Photofest 2019, at the State Art Gallery, September - October 20th 2019, Hyderabad, India
I never realized - collective exhibition during the Fotofestival Lenzburg , May - June 2019, Lenzburg, Switzerland
2018
I never realized - collective exhibition in Photoforum Pasquart , December 2018 - January 2019, Biel, Switzerland
Twenties - exhibited at La Grange de Dorigny , Mai 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
Publication
I never realized published in December 2018 issue of International Photography Magazine
I never realized published in November 2018 issue of Marie Claire, Hungary
Photos of women's march 2019 in Bishkek Kygrysztan published in Slate fr
Nominations
Pomegranates grow in winter - Book project grant Canton Zürich, City of Zürich & prohelvetia
Portfolio nominated for the True Picture award 2022
Participation at Plat(t)form 2022 at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Pomegranates grow in winter Shortlisted for Riga Self Publish 2021
Pomegranates grow in winter Shortlisted for Kassel Book Dummy Award 2020
I never realized selected in the Flash Forward 2019 competition of the Magenta Foundation
Pomegranates grow in winter Shortlisted for Lucie Foundation Award 2018
I never realized nominated for the body section of the Photography Grant 2018
Artist Talk
Vorkurs Lecture, ZHdK Zürich - 2024
vfg Bildersoirée, F+F Zürich - 2022
Artist Salon, Work show grow - 2022