Japan - away from cherry blossoms and kimono
As a photojournalist, Patrick Rohr has traveled to completely different countries around the world in recent years: Ukraine, Laos, Nepal, Uganda, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh. A country definitely never stood on top of it bucket list: Japan. The country seemed too strange, too inaccessible, too incomprehensible to him. Two years ago, he finally allowed himself to be persuaded to take a (private) trip to the land of the rising sun – and didn't want to go home. Everything that had previously held him back suddenly attracted him. Hardly in Switzerland, he went back to Japan - this time with the camera and the notepad. Fascinated and irritated by the contrasts of the island kingdom, he went in search of a Japan that is not accessible to tourists. He came back with very personal pictures and stories, which he will show and tell at Photo Münsingen.
Patrick Rohr
Patrick Rohr worked until 2007 as an editor and moderator for various Swiss television programs (including Schweiz aktuell, Arena, Quer). He then set up his own communications company and trained as a documentary and portrait photographer at the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. Today he travels the world as a photojournalist for NGOs such as Helvetas, Doctors Without Borders and Biovision. In addition, he creates freelance works such as the photo reportage book “Japan – Away from Cherry Blossoms and Kimono” (TELE/Edition Observer). He exhibits pictures from it at the Photo Münsingen.
