When we met as young, naïve, chain-smoking photography students at the Zurich School of Art, we never imagined that our first projects would turn into a close collaboration of 20 years.
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A lot has happened in these 20 years.
We have crossed several continents, looked at the world together, created films, sculptures and above all pictures, installed dozens of exhibitions and produced many books.
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For various reasons, we have decided to end our collaboration and go our separate ways from now on.
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We would like to say a big heartfelt THANK YOU to all the wonderful people who accompanied and supported us in all these years. It was an exciting and rewarding time and we would not want to have missed it at any price.
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Our last common project, the book Water Column, will be published this summer by Edition Patrick Frey and we are also working on a comprehensive archival website, which will represent our extensive work up to this year. However, it will still take some time until it’s completion.
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This summer we would like to celebrate our end and the last book properly and hope to do this together with all of you. An invitation will follow.
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Inquiries about our past collaborative work should be sent to estate@tonk.ch, as we are also parting ways with our gallery Sies + Höke in Düsseldorf.
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For individual enquiries we can be reached at the following addresses:
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Taiyo: mail@taiyoonorato.com
Nico: nicokrebs@pm.me.
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We’d be happy to stay in touch!
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So long, all the best,
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Taiyo & Nico