Martin Kollar

Martin Kollar traveled to Israel on several occasions reflecting on how to photograph a country that has already been the subject of so many photo-reports. Eschewing all the usual media clichés, his Field Trip series seeks to make palpable the tensions at work in the conflict-torn region by showing, for example, ambiguous architecture or opaque scientific experiments. Sometimes disturbing, verging on absurdity, his images were displayed at Espace Images without any geographical or temporal commentary or information, leaving viewers free to analyze what is there to be observed according to their own geopolitical knowledge.

Martin Kollar is known for revealing the absurdity of the quotidian in his work, bringing forth incongruous details from a priori banal situations. Thanks to the Nestlé Grant from Grand Prix Images Vevey 2007/2008, he came to the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, which opened its doors to an independent photographer for the very first time. In this series, he brings viewers into a mysterious and ultra-secured world by discreetly and humorously capturing the unintentional drollery of the scientific experiments undertaken by the agro-business giant.

Martin Kollar is known for revealing the absurdity of the quotidian in his work, bringing forth incongruous details from a priori banal situations. Thanks to the Nestlé Grant from Grand Prix Images Vevey 2007/2008, he came to the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, which opened its doors to an independent photographer for the very first time. In this series, he brings viewers into a mysterious and ultra-secured world by discreetly and humorously capturing the unintentional drollery of the scientific experiments undertaken by the agro-business giant.