About Bob

Roberto Raineri-Seith lives in Ascona, Switzerland. President of the Swiss Professional Photographers and Photo Designers Association SBF since 2003, he works as a professional photo designer, editor and writer, and as an event and exhibition organiser in the cultural field. He is also a member of the directive board of the Büro für Fotografiegeschichte Bern, of the quality assurance commission supervising the swiss photo design training www.fotodesign.ch and a member of the Swiss Creative Photographers Association vfg. Solo and group exhibitions since 1992 with acquisitions by various public and private collections. "1. Prize of Photography 1994" of the Swiss Italian Fine Arts Society STBA. As a freelance journalist he has collaborated with various daily papers and periodicals of Italian Switzerland and published the books "Il luogo che non c'e'" (Casagrande, 1997) and "Ticino graffiti" (Pedrazzini, 1992). Since the first '80s he also acts as an experimental electronic music composer and performer and from 1987 until 1991 he was art director of the contemporary music series "L'altro suono".

Self portrait with my german grandfather, 1970

One of my first photographs, taken at the age of 10 with a 6x6 Rolleiflex.