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Another world,
revealed to those
who take the time
to look.

Swiss landscapes you may have passed through before, but never seen like this.

Île de la Harpe, on Lake Geneva, in visible light.
Move across the image to change the light.Visible — Infrared
Gem: a waterfall among rocks and red vegetation, above a turquoise pool.
GemLumina · 2025 ↗

Infrared reveals the part of the landscape that eludes us.

What interests me is that particular moment: someone looks, recognises a tree or a lake, yet stops because something doesn’t quite fit.

It shifts just enough to make us look again.

Daydreamer: a jetty on Lake Geneva, surrounded by pink foliage.
DaydreamerAllaman · 2025 ↗

Look twice.

I am interested in the slight gap between what we recognise and what we don’t quite understand. That is where the image begins to exist.

Breathing: a solitary tree with red branches, beneath a heavy sky.
BreathingSpectra ↗

An invitation to slow down and contemplate what has always been there.

Much of the work happens before the photograph. Finding a place, taking in its surroundings, waiting for something to appear rather than searching for it.

I try to reveal what landscapes already hold, what the first glance misses.

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One of a kind · Outside the collections

The Otherworld

A tree you will never see again. One image, one frame, just once.

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The Otherworld, an infrared photograph of a bare tree in its black frame.

Look a little longer.

Jonas Hangartner

A slow practice, between precision and contemplation.

What draws me to these landscapes is what they reveal beyond the first glance. I try to slow down, staying with a scene long enough for something unexpected to appear.

Jonas Hangartner · Lavigny ↗