Daniel Gendre

Daniel Gendre was born in 1946 and educated in Geneva, Switzerland. He learned photography in London where he spent three years assisting well-known photographers such as Bookbinder, Phil Jude and Duffy. 

Gendre worked as an advertising photographer for over 40 years. His work has been published and recognised with many exhibitions and awards.  His photographs have been purchased by the Swiss Photographic Foundation, Kunsthaus Zürich and the Swiss Photographic Foundation Winterthur.  

With the support of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, his works were exhibited in 2009 at the Russian National Museum in Saint-Petersburg and his book was published by Offizin Verlag Zürich.  

Gendre's works were selected in 2011 for a public presentation at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne.

His extensive work on Tokyo has been exhibited at the Embassy of Japan in Switzerland in 2012, 2015 and 2017. 

In 2019 he donated the Russian National Museum for Political History in Saint Petersburg 44 original prints of his USSR work in 1970s. 

Selected exhibitions:

2003 Galerie Sarasin, Genf: 50 portraits en noir/blanc

2004 Werkgalerie, Maur ZH: Photographies en noir/blanc

2007 Galerie Last, Zürich: Petites histoires russes

2008 Nationalmuseum für politische Geschichte Russlands, Villa Matilda Felixowna Kschessinskaja, St. Petersburg

2009 Galerie im Höchhuus, Küsnacht: Lipsticks et polachromes

2011 Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne: Présentation publique

2011 Japanische Botschaft, Bern: Tokyo, poésie urbaine

2012 Le Château, Montcherand: Déchets de Vinyle

2015 Japanische Botschaft, Bern: Silent Tokyo (Still lives – Natures mortes)

2020 Photobastei, Zurich "Postkarten - Carte postales", Bilder aus den 70er- und 80er-Jahren