CAP Prize - The International Contemporary African Photography Prize
Founded by Benjamin Füglister, the CAP Prize is the international Prize for Contemporary African Photography awarded annually since 2012 to five photographers whose works were created on the African continent, or which engage with the African diaspora. Benjamin Füglister is the founding director of the CAP Prize.
Benjamin Füglister
Benjamin Füglister is a practicing visual artist. His work is mainly mainly focused on photography and video reflecting the ever changing image of human kind.
CROP UP Festival for photograph-like art.
The CROP UP Festival is a dynamic forum for visual art that unfolds over ten days in art spaces and on the street. Avant-garde artists from Switzerland and abroad come together here to present their works of photograph-like art.
The festival acts as a seismograph for the vibrant scene of photography, AI, video & media art and creates a unique platform for innovative and previously lesser-known artistic discoveries in these fields.
TALK TALK TALK – African Photography Conversations
TALK TALK TALK is a series of presentations and discussions around photography in African contexts with the aim of networking the different initiatives and photographers on the continent and beyond. The format was first introduced by APS members FOTEA and CAP Association at the 2019 Bamako Encounters in Mali. All episodes are available at www.talktalktalk.photo and on Apple podcasts. TALK TALK TALK was initiated by Benjamin Füglister and Anna Kućma from FOTEA.
NEW HORIZON PRODUCTIONS - Agentur der Kultur
NEW HORIZON PRODUCTIONS has seen itself as a cultural service provider since 1998. Its core businesses include media design as well as project and arts management. Photography plays a central role in all projects. Benjamin Füglister founded NHP in 1999.
piclet.agency – Fresh Photography Finds
Online directory for hand-picked photographers' portfolios, spaces, magazines, galleries, museums, blogs, auction houses, publishers, and bookstores – all photography related. Founded by Benjamin Füglister in 2009, it currently undergoes a thorough overhaul.
IAF Basel – Festival for Contemporary Art
IAF Basel is an interdisciplinary festival for contemporary art dedicated to the African continent and its diaspora. It originated from the Image Afrique Festival and is directed by Benjamin Füglister and Livia Rutishauser.
CAP Association – Executing African Photography Projects
The CAP Association is a not for profit association based in Basel, Switzerland executing African photography projects since 2016. The association was initiated through projects that were previously started in the frame work of Verein Liaison. Benjamin Füglister is the founding chairman of the CAP Association.
Ben on the Road
This blog presents Benjamin Füglister’s journalistic works.
African Photographic Society
The African Photographic Society is an international association with the aim of fostering the development and promotion of African photography and photographic practices in Africa.
In the past decade we have witnessed a tremendous growth of interest in African photography and photographic practices in Africa which has led on a global level to a multitude of individual and collective initiatives with the aim of supporting and forwarding this development. We believe it is time to unite and coordinate these efforts in order to collectively strengthen the voice of African photography internationally. Benjamin Füglister is a co-founder of APS together with Jürg Schneider from African Photography Initiatives.
I Am Just a Souvenir
I am just a Souvenir is an investigative, journalistic project that examines how ethnically mixed children in the Philippines grow up and what sort of challenges they face. Furthermore it aims to explore how the mothers of these children – who often don’t know the father – deal with the situation. Also it tries to find out what role the catholic church plays when it comes to contraception and sexuell education. Lastly the projects analyses the Welfare situation of children having only one parent. I am Just a Souvenir is a project by Benjamin Füglister and Martina Merten.
sodbrand – Zeitschrift mit alles und viel scharf!
sodbrand was Switzerland's card magazine, a postcard publication consisting of 30 individual cards printed on both sides and bound into a booklet. Each issue was published on a specific theme. One photographer designed all the cards in each issue. The text editors compiled contributions for the backs of the cards that illuminated the theme from very different angles. Every two months a new, surprising combination of pictures and texts appeared.
The texts did not explain the pictures, nor did the pictures illustrate the texts. Image and text existed independently of each other. Nevertheless, they formed an inseparable unit in sodbrand. Hardly any other magazine gave the same importance to images and text as sodbrand. With its special format (10.5 x 21 cm), sodbrand encouraged collecting. The magazine was readable both as a whole and in its individual parts - the individual cards. The magazine was available free of charge in selected pubs and could also be bought or ordered in bookshops. The readership consisted of urban, sophisticated people between the ages of 25 and 40.
Benjamin Füglister launched the magazine in 2003 together with Claudio Miozzari. Three issues were published.
European Photography
European Photography is the independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media, published biannually by Andreas Müller-Pohle.
Benjamin Füglister was an editorial capacity at the magazine from 2005 – 2023 . He is now member of the editorial network.
Basler Fasnacht
Benjamin Füglister is a passionate Fasnächtler – an active participant of the Basel Carnival. The UNESCO world heritage event is at the creative heart of the city and part of its identity – culturally speaking.
Photo Basel – International Art Fair
photo basel is Switzerland's art fair solely dedicated to photography and takes place annually parallel to Art Basel since 2015.
Benjamin Füglister is a member of photo basel's curatorial circle, which is in charge of reviewing and selecting galleries, special projects, and special exhibitions.