ON LOCATION Journal

When Words Become Space

B. Braun Switzerland Employer Branding —— From Production to Final Image

At the core of this project was an ambitious idea: to translate employer values into something people can physically relate to. Instead of placing typography onto images, the words themselves became physical objects, shaping space, interacting with people and defining each scene.

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Guided by Safety

How We Photograph in Restricted Industrial Environments

The gate said RESTRICTED AREA, no admittance. We had the permits. We went in. An energy company's infrastructure does not pause for a photo shoot. Tanks, pipelines and access zones remain live. People continue their work. The conditions that make a site interesting to photograph are often the same ones that require the most careful preparation.

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Eternal Ice

Photographing Switzerland's Disappearing Glaciers —— Personal work

Our work usually takes us somewhere loud. Oil refineries, factory floors, industrial sites across the world, locations where the visual language is one of pressure, heat and human effort. We know these environments well, and we are at home in them. Which is perhaps why the Swiss glaciers stopped us in our tracks.

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On Location: Where It All Began

The Magazine That Became a Journal

In 2016, we published a magazine. We called it ON LOCATION. It was something close to what this journal is now: a record of where we had been, what we had found there, and what it actually takes to make pictures in places that do not always make it easy.

The magazine came about at the same time as a new chapter for Scanderbeg Sauer. Keller Maurer Design developed our new corporate identity, including stationery, website and the magazine itself. A fresh visual language called for something to carry it into the world: something physical, worth keeping. ON LOCATION was that object.

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Chavalon

A Portrait of a Disused Power Station —— Personal work

We found CHAVALON by accident. We were on location for a client production somewhere in the Rhône valley when we spotted it on the hillside above us: a massive industrial structure, visible from kilometres away, clearly no longer in use. When the job was done, we drove up.

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At the Edge of Flight

DECOMMISSIONED —— Personal work

At first, the Mojave Air and Space Port does not look like a place of endings. From the road, the aircraft standing in long rows on the desert floor could almost be waiting for departure. Only when you walk among them do the details become unavoidable: missing engines, hollow instrument panels, fuselages propped on wooden trestles. These machines are not parked. They are parked for good.

DECOMMISSIONED is a fine art photography project we made at this facility in California's high desert. The images took days to make. But the permission to make them took considerably more.

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