Mischa Haller: CV
Born in Switzerland 1971
Lives and works in London
Mischa Hallerʼs reportage and portrait photography focuses on details and moments that encapsulate a bigger picture of daily life. At times quirky and humorous, his work highlights the pathos of human existence and the poignancy of time spent watching or waiting or hoping.
Photography
2010-2011 Pictet & Cie corporate commission to create artwork inspired by the trading floor of the private bank
2009-present Worked in conjunction with branding consultant thinking place and graphic designer Peter Anderson Studios to create a series of images re-branding towns including Rochdale, Dun Laoghaire and Holyhead
2008-present On-going project‚ 'Waiting Game', examining the ubiquituous aspects of how people wait and queue in Britain today; preview published in The Times Magazine
2006-2007 Followed five emerging artists, documenting their working practice and lives in Japan, Poland, Switzerland, USA and Argentina to produce catalogue and exhibition for 'UBS Young Art'
2003-2005 Commission by the Mount Stuart Trust Visual Arts Programme to create an exhibition and book, both called 'on Bute', about the community on the Isle of Bute, Scotland
2005 Courtauld Institute of Art commission to take a portrait of the artist Richard Wilson and his family
2002-2004 Portrait series entitled 'In Between' featuring swimmers after swimming, and workers after working in frozen food distribution warehouses
2002 Self-published book of portrait and reportage essays entitled 'off chance'. Included a day in the life of a minicabbie, a bank holiday at the race track and the culture of shopping in Cape Town
1997-2004 Extensive travel in Africa. Several trips to Rwanda for Die Zeit to photograph orphans of war, and a book project about the griots (oral historians) in Senegal
Exhibitions
2007 'UBS Young Art' at G27 exhibition space, Zurich
2006 'on Bute' at The Photographersʼ Gallery, Print Sales, London
2005 'on Bute' at Friedland & Rivault Gallery, Paris
'on Bute' at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
2004 'In Between' as part of the Summer Group Show, The Photographersʼ Gallery, Print Sales, London
2004 'In Between' at the Friedland & Rivault Gallery, Paris
Curation
2011 Large-scale billboard show, 'Re-Generation', with Swiss artists around London Bridge station, organised in conjunction with the Swiss Embassy, London
2009 Pop-up gallery show, 'RePlace' co-curated with Liz Helman showing work of six contemporary artists responding to the concept 'the ever-changing urban environments that are replaced; reinvented; reconstructed and re-arranged.
Awards
2003 Award of Excellence by Photography Annual 44 for the ʻSwimmersʼ series
2002 Shortlisted for the St. James Group Photography Prize for ʻEurostar Sleepersʼ series of passengers attempting to sleep on early morning train
Teaching
2005-2008 Visiting Lecturer and Tutor at London College of Communication
2005 Lecture and workshops on the Isle of Bute for the local community Lecturer and tutor at Camberwell College of Art
Assisting and Education
1993-1997 Photographerʼs assistant in Paris: Work with Peter Beard, Christoph Klauke, Mirella
Ricciardi
1991-1992 Sociology Studies at Zurich University
1986-1991 Swiss Baccalaureat in Languages: Latin, French, English and German
Clients
The magazines of The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The Daily Telegraph as well as Monocle, Viewpoint and Die Zeit.
Pictet & Cie., UBS, Peter Anderson Studio, The Future Laboratory, Courtauld Institute of Art, Friends of the National Gallery Berlin, John Brown Media, Redwood Publishing and Seven.