de Tscharner Richard

«Das schöne und Vergängliche» MZ Zeitung, 30. Oktober 2009 (PDF)
«Im Stil der Reportage-Fotografie» Luzerner Nachrichten, 30. November 2009 (PDF)
Ausstellungseröffnung (Film)

Biography
Born in Bern in 1947, Richard de Tscharner developed a passion for photography at a very young age. He learnt the basics during the many excursions his father led him on, through the Alps of the Valais, with a camera slung over his shoulder, while at the same time falling in love with nature and wide open spaces.
Although his passion for photography never left him, Richard de Tscharner’s career path led him in a different direction. He graduated from the faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Geneva and he entered the world of finance in 1972 with Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Co., private bankers in Geneva, eventually reaching the position of Managing Partner in 1989.
Towards the end of 2006, Richard de Tscharner decided to leave the group and the banking world in order to fully dedicate himself to imparting the values that have led and inspired him throughout his life.
It was then that photography came back into focus and brought him to widen his vision. It started with a journey of initiation in Mali with his friend and fellow photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh and developed further in the course of an amazing round-the-world trip that forever changed his look upon the world, both as an artist and as a person.
In conjunction with his photographic career, Richard de Tscharner is committed, through the Carène Foundation, to sharing two cornerstone values that have supported him all along his path through life: education and respect for tradition.
Married and a father of three, he lives in Coppet, overlooking Lake Geneva.