Schobinger Maurice (St-Légier-La Chiésaz)

Born in Vevey in 1960. 1984 Graduate of the Vevey School of Photography. Since 1984 Freelance photographer, working in landscape and industrial photography. From 1988 Develops complex photographic lighting techniques for buildings and construction sites. Continues to create a photographic archive of Swiss landscapes. 1999 Began photographic monitoring of the Gotthard base tunnel, which will be the longest tunnel in the world (57 km). 2004 Official photographer for the construction of the first Swiss m2 metro in Lausanne. He also works for construction companies in the building and civil engineering sectors.

Between 2008 and 2010, Maurice Schobinger made five trips to Volgograd, bringing back a poignant photographic record of this martyred city. In 2010, Editions noir sur Blanc published "Stalingrad Volgograd", enriched by the full translation of Serafima Fedorovna Voronina's diary, kept between September 10 and October 25, 1942. It's the voice of a schoolteacher, a simple civilian caught in the trap of war. A voice that would end up muffled under the bombardments. The whole is a subtle blend of tribute, memory and the rebirth of a city.