This was Regula’s second stay at HEREKEKE as a Visiting Artist documenting the changes in the seasons as well as developing her own body of work.  During her stay, Regula edited and scanned several medium format negatives from her trip to Bolivia and Argentina in 2009.  Her relationship to space, architecture, nature and people is reflected harmoniously through her work.

 

  Regula Franz is a documentary photographer and instructor who holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She is originally from Basel, Switzerland, where she received [the equivalent of] a BA in English, Linguistics, Anthropology and Art History. She moved to America in the mid-eighties as an exchange student to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and later changed career to study photography in Richmond. After meeting her future husband in Mexico in 1993, she lived in Germany for five years, where she worked as a photojournalist and film location scout in Hamburg, and as a senior photo editor at die tageszeitung in Berlin.