LookatOnline Newsletter March 2008 |
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Dear friends and clients of Lookatonline, following a listing of the whereabouts of our photographers: Robert Huber is preparing a story on the wives and girlfriends of the Turkish national team for the European Championship. He will be in Istanbul first week of April. Robert is available for assignments. Call +41 79 607 3703 Stefan Walter just finished his essay on the mountain league football team of Gspon. The story is featured in this newsletter and heat is building up towards the European Football Mega Event. Stefan is currently in Zürich and available for assignments. Call +41 79 611 5528 Meinrad Schade has just returned from a trip to Mali and is working on this assignment. Based in Zürich he is available for assignments. Call +41 79 343 1489 Fred Froument will be in Montreal until the end of March. Then traveling between Tokyo and Shanghai. Please contact him for specific dates, he is gladly taking on assignments. Call +33 68 556 1031 Luca Zanetti will be in Zürich for the next weeks. He is available for assignments. Call +41 79 743 7242 Felix von Muralt is busy as the director of photography for a feature film on location in Arosa, After that Lebanon. Carmela Odoni is working in Bern where she is available for assignments. Call +41 79 375 7700 Thomas Kern is currently in Switzerland working on assignments and seeing clients. Pitching a reportage on the International Military Pilgrimage to Lourdes. See the story featured in this newsletter. He is available for assignments. Call +41 79 744 6084 Charly Kurz is based in New York and available for assignments. Please call +1 917 292 5879 Yves Leresche is supposedly somewhere in the Balkans. To contact him please call +41 78 772 1782 Andreas Seibert has returned to Tokyo from a trip to China for his upcoming book. To contact Andreas for availability please call +81 901 770 7423 Best wishes . . . Lookatonline
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Stefan Walter - Europes Highest Football Pitch
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Tucked away between Swiss mountains and not too far away from FIFA president Josef Blatters home town Visp lies the tiny hamlet Gspon. Its only accessible via cablecar or on foot.
A short but steep walk outside Gspon - at around 2008m - is Europes highest football pitch. This is the homeground of The FC Gspon. They are one of the top teams of the regional Mountain-Village League where 26 teams in three different levels compete. Some of this leagues rules are different to FIFAs laws of the game: - the field surface is much smaller - there are only 7 players - dimension of the goal is 5mx2m - penalty distance 7m - no offside - no back pass rule From the 23rd to the 25th of Mai the FC Gspon will host the European Mountain Villages Football Cup. There will be 8 national" teams: Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and oddly enough the Netherlands.
Thomas Kern - Lourdes Military Pilgrimage
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In 1958, French soldiers invited their former German opponents to gather with them in Lourdes to pray together and to pray with their families for peace in the world. Since then, the annual gathering in Lourdes has grown to involve military personnel from 31 different countries. This year's pilgrimage, the 50st annyversary promises to be a memorable and historic occasion.
Lourdes was originally a small unremarkable market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees. At that time the most prominent feature was the fortified castle which rises up from the centre of the town on a rocky escarpment. Following the claims that there were apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858, Lourdes has developed into a major place of Christian pilgrimage.
Today Lourdes has a population of around 15,000 inhabitants but is able to take in some 5,000,000 pilgrims and tourists every year. Lourdes has the second greatest number of hotels in France after Paris with about 270 establishments.
Modern Lourdes has no shortage of glitz on display. Visitors may be shocked or repelled by the blatant commercialism practised in Lourdes, with neon-emblazoned gift shops overflowing with tacky souvenirs and dubious holy artifacts.
Robert Huber - First Secondos
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Italians are the oldest immigrant community in Zürich. What was once a much needed workforce of temporary laborers has become the most integrated community of foreigners in Switzerland.
First generation immigrants who have no family left to go back to can now live in assisted living institutions which cater to their mediteranian tastes; proper catholic education is given to preschoolers by nuns - in Zürich's Italian community center; Popular Italian sports as Boccia or soccer have their own places and clubs in town which often feel more like Sicilly than Zurich. 3rd generation Italians say they feel more Swiss than Italian. While being the best integrated foreign community in Zürich, Italians have managed to maintain their culture here and turn pockets of Zürich into Italy - to everybody's advantage.
lookatonline photographers: Robert Huber, Thomas Kern, Charly Kurz, Marc Latzel, Yves Leresche, Felix v. Muralt, Carmela Odoni, Meinrad Schade, Andreas Seibert, Stefan Walter, Luca Zanetti
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