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milky diamond on her way to the stage
digital photography
2022

candid backstage moments of zurich's queen of the scene, milky diamond.


eneas (hen/he)
videoportrait
2021

eneas (hen/he) is a young trans nonbinary activist from winterthur who celebrates hens first year on testosterone hormone treatment. our film is about hens transition in the last year, hens gender expression and thoughts about lgbtq+ issues. produced with matthias pfammatter (he/him).


i feel ants crawling under my skin
digital photography, selfportraiture
2021 – ongoing

i feel ants crawling under my skin is about uneasiness in my own body and the discontents of womanhood. i expose myself to live up to my role as a woman.


drag
digital photography
2021 – ongoing

i had the chance to photograph several drag shows all over switzerland.


pierced fruits: on body modification
digital photography
2022

my newest obsession in early 2022 were body modifications. i always understood piercings as a kind of extension of the body, a fancy gadget. insprired by similarities different fruits have to ears, breasts and other limbs and their sexual energy i decorated them with piercings.


backstage
digital photography
2023 - ongoing

i am backstage. it smells of nail polish, hair spray and redbull. the performers beside me get dressed in drag - and i explore my pink plasticky queer candy dream world. there, i meet my alter ego, lutsch bonbon.


was bleibt nach der letzten talfahrt?
digital photography
2022

the swiss cableway law states that mountain lifts that are no longer in use must be dismantled. in the canton of valais, however, there are numerous ruins and remnants of former ski areas that tell a story of past tourism booms, lack of money and insufficient responsibility. the series "was bleibt nach der letzten talfahrt?" is a photo-documentary research on the decay of abandoned ski lifts and highlights the ongoing clash between visionary investments and sustainable development in the swiss alpine regions. you can visit the website here.


hair
hair, sewing thread and hot glue in textile, diameter 19 cm
2020

in february 2020 i began to wear my hair as a buzz cut. to counter the common statements against short-haired women with irony, i embroidered them with the cut-off hair.