STEPHAN BÖSCH, born 1982, lives in St. Gallen and works as a freelance photographer in the realm ranging from photographic art to commissioned photography. He produces portraits, reportages as well as landscape and architectural photographs for his clients with enormous presence and tangibility, mainly in elegant black and white. For Bösch, photography is a means of learning to observe and understand events, things and people more closely.

A photograph often only captures a fraction of a second, and yet it takes a great deal of groundwork, patience and devotion to achieve such a fleeting moment in the image. For Stephan Bösch, however, the best photographs only emerge when the pursuit of perfect technique dissipates with the awareness that he is completely in tune with the subject. At that point, the image as an end product becomes secondary. More importantly, one needs to approach the subject-matter, gradually, with respect.

For Bösch, fast cameras and long lenses are often not required, and restraint is more important to him: You can’t steal a feeling of intimacy; one needs to leave space for people and nature. For him, photography implies honest experience rather than intervention.

And at the right moment, with the right degree of intimacy, he takes the perfect picture. The spectacular is miles away and so is the speculative. The photos that Stephan Bösch takes are calm, but not quiet. They speak.