Two friends of mine didn’t like the fact that I announced a ‘vita’ for several months but never made an approach. They thought 'if this guy is too lazy to write about his twists, we’re not.' They gathered information about me (who were the betrayers?), sat down and started to concentrate my life focused on my photographic and multimedial activities. And they made their job pretty well, gosh! Well, guys, thanks for your dedication.
Samuel Fischer was born on the 21st of March 1981 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He grew up in Alpnach Dorf and came due to the artificial environment (father Lucky Fischer is a part-time sculptor, painter and black smith and mother Trix Fischer calligraphist) already early in touch with different types of arts.
In early adolescence, Samuel concentrated himself on acrylic painting in the first place. His emphasis was in the art of the aborigines and he specialized himself in this domain until school leaving qualification (college, ‘Matura’). His matura-thesis ‘instruments of the aborigines’ and the arts-matura-thesis ‘the art of the aborigines’ are just two highlights of this period. Furthermore Samuel got fascinated by experimental UV-painting; he created several black light installations for underground parties and gained the respect of this scene.
In those years, photography became more and more important for Samuel. Already with the age of 10, equipped with a Minolta SLR with a defect light meter (o-tone Samuel: ‘The best thing that could have happened to me. I didn’t have an external light meter und always had to estimate shutter speed and aperture…’), he got infected with the fascination for photography. With the earnings of his first real vacation job he bought the brand new Canon EOS 300, an analogue SLR and two lenses. Samuel specialised himself in the domain of long time exposure. The pictures which were produced under the working title ‘nightshot’ attracted the interest of the environment of Samuel Fischer.
Samuel shot about 12 years analogue. With the age of 21, after he bought a professional video cam (Canon XM-2) and was more than happy with the results, his provisos in the digital technique dropped which was imperfect in his eyes so far. In the same time his trust in the brand Canon got stronger. A year later he bought the brand new digital SLR Canon EOS 10D und was thrilled. In the same year Samuel Fischer founded artinc.ch.
Thereafter, Samuel became proud owner of professional lenses of the Canons top series (the L-series). He financed them with sold pictures and assigned works. Travelling became an important part of his business and the journeys itself got re-financed with the sale of pictures through agencies. His photos attracted more and more attention and the website found an uprising fan community. Not only the interest in pictures for different purposes got more frequent the demand for web usable graphics and entire homepages as well. Samuel Fischer was in a full time study at this time and had to refuse several interesting offers in Switzerland as well as abroad. In the year 2005 Samuel fulfilled finally his dream of own Elinchrom studio flashs.
At the end of year 2007, his EOS 10D was after more than 200’000 exposures slowly exhausting. Canon launched her new EOS 40D and due to excellent performs in different independent tests Samuel decided to buy this camera. His high expectations in this camera and the brand Canon got exceeded another time.
The year 2008 is the most eventful year in the life of Samuel Fischer. After his return with sensational pictures and video material from a five week stay in Guadeloupe (France-Caribbean) at the beginning of the year, he agreed the first time to take pictures of a wedding in February 2008. In March followed a two week stay in Dublin. Back in Switzerland, Samuel started to redesign his website. In April he decided to give up his full employment role in Switzerland relocate to Ireland. Among others, there were following two highlights (balélec festival in Lausanne in May and the accompaniment of the Formual Student project of the ETH Zurich to Silverstone UK in July). On the 4th of August, Samuel left Switzerland to explore new professional and private territory.
We wish Samuel good luck. May he continue impressing and inspiring us with his stunning pictures.
Two friends on the 12th of August 2008
Well then, if it’s your wish to stay anonymous… Thank you very much, you saved me a lot of work. I think I couldn’t have remembered better on some details (where do you have the title of my matura-thesis from!?). And be assured, I will furthermore be concerned in continuing to deliver good pictures. |
