• American Dreamscapes / Rita and the Gun
  • Lecture 2017

    Christian Heeb, The way to the American Dreamscapes

  • Place

    Füür­wehr­saal

  • Time

    Friday, May 26, 2017, 11.00

The way to the American Dreamscapes

The Swiss American photographer presents in this 1 hour show how he got his new picture series in the creative process.

The American Dreamscapes appeared in an opulent illustrated book in the Edition Panaoram and were recently exhibited in a large exhibition of 42 images at the Freiburg glass factory.

Christian Heeb shows how he got from his career in the USA as a successful travel photographer and chronicler of America to an artistic confrontation with the crumbling American Dream.

Christian Heeb

The photographer, who has lived in Oregon, USA since 1996, made Donald Trump's America visible in his pictures.

The Swiss photographer is known for his pictures of Indians and American landscapes.

After years of work on travel topics with a focus on North and South America, he dedicates himself to the land of his dreams in an opulent illustrated book.