Deceased

For the Zug photographer Alois Ottiger (*1941), portraying people or staging architecture with people were the most fascinating subjects in photography. Ottiger wrote: "During a photo session, there is a wonderful collaboration between the photographer and the model: Both want to achieve the optimal image. It is not always a laurel wreath that is placed on the photographer's head - we humans are sometimes quite vain. We often see ourselves differently to the people around us!"

Although Ottiger was enthusiastic about experimenting and composing with photography, applied photography was an exciting challenge for him. After training in Lucerne, Gstaad, Basel, Frankfurt am Main and Zurich, he opened a studio in Zug as a professional photographer in 1967, which he ran together with his partner Liselott Ottiger-Schwerzmann. He became known for his factual and architectural photographs, which he created for the advertising industry and architectural firms, but also for museums and the preservation of historical monuments. Between 2021 and 2023, he published six books, including a book about the city in which he lived for many years, ‘Rome - Interior Views of a City’. Alois Ottiger died on 10 March 2025.