Gian Vaitl

08 .12.1961   Born in Samedan

1977 – 1980  Aprentice as textile Designer in Winterthur

1981 – 1984  Education to be a socio-culturel Animator in Zürich

1982 - 1988  Work as a socio-culturel Animator in a Center for Young People

1989 – 1990  fotografic studies in the GAF (Group for autodidactic fotografie)

1990 – 1993  Building up the „MACCHINA OBSCURA“ a truck as a fotolaboratorie, and working with him as a mobile photoschool in allover Switzerland

1990  Working as a fotografer and Co- Founder of „REGARDS“ a swiss fotografer agencie

Participant on Zürich – Mocow an exchange program between swiss and russian fotografers, after that part time living in russia

1990 – 2007  Work as a fotografer for all major swiss newspapers and a lot of public and private clients on all continent

2000 Training on MAZ the swiss Media Education Center in Luzern and Trainer on GAF (Group for autodidactic fotografie)

2003 Since 2003 Expert for Examinations for fotografic studies

2001 – 2007   Board Member of the swiss assosiation of fotorafic creater (vfg) and organiser of the „vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis“ the biggest contest of young fotografie in switzerland

2006 – 2007   Building up and monitor the first albanian fotoschool projekt 5.6 in Tirana

Projekt 5.6 in 2011
Photograma
Photography ‘trap’
Projected Visions
Sotiri prize
Diploma 2008
Jürg Klotz
Jemi une dhe ti
Anne Morgenstern
dhe Daniel Sutter
Eliane Rutishauser 
dhe Gian Vaitl
Angelo Luedin
në Projekt 5.6
Luedin: Trophies of time
Marubi Shkodër
Dita e hapjes