(SWITZERLAND) Benjamin Füglister is an artist and cultural entrepreneur born in Switzerland in 1978. He has lived in Berlin, Germany, since completing his studies at the Basel College of Art in Switzerland, and at the Utrecht College of Art in the Netherlands. In his artistic practice he questions social conventions and explores their visual transformations. His particular interest is photography as a medium for visualising changes in the human image. Füglister is co-director of the IAF Basel - Festival of Contemporary Art. Benjamin Füglister has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine European Photography since 2006, and in 2009 he established Piclet, a platform for hand-selected photographic portfolios and a directory for photography festivals, magazines and institutions. He is the founder of the CAP Prize, the Contemporary African Photography Prize, which will be awarded for the first time in 2012. Füglister is one of the nominators of the renowned Prix Pictet, and sits on the artistic advisory board of Photo Basel. He regularly works as a critic at international photography festivals, such as the European Month of Photography in Vienna or the Uganda Festival.

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