Christian Waeber, PhD  

 "He is also a photographer. Admittedly, he has a unique perspective on the human body: he studies it both under a microscope as well as through a medium format camera.

"As humans, our whole esthetics is based on the human body, we use it as a yardstick for our surrounding universe, we use it to DEFINE what is beautiful. I am convinced that if we looked like spiders or snails, we would be attracted by spider- or snail-like shapes. What I am trying to do is use parts of the human body, extract them from their context (so that, for instance, it becomes difficult to recognize a hip, a shoulder or a leg) and transform them to create something new, that doesn't "look" like a human body, an abstract object that has conserved its beauty and erotic load. I use several means to achieve this transformation: alteration of texture (e.g. by covering the skin with sand), of scale (by using wide angle lenses), or by using several models, creating some kind of "impossible" body. But movement (with long shutter speed) and water (in particular underwater photography) are by far my preferred ways of altering body shapes (see the examples below)."

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