Exhibition: Life of the Other Ones – Traces of Forgotten Lives

Photographer Stéphane Lanoux presents his first Swiss exhibition at Espace Kugler: “Life of the Other Ones – empreintes de vies oubliées” a powerful testimony to lives lived on the margins, often absent from contemporary narratives.

Through a documentary journey across Asia, the Middle East, and South Africa, Stéphane Lanoux delivers images that blend aesthetic strength with emotional depth. His photographs, both raw and poetic, capture the dignity of those too rarely seen: communities on the brink of erasure, hidden from view, often denied basic rights.

Each image is a trace, a mark of life, resistance, and belonging. This is not mere reportage; it is a profoundly human photographic language that questions our capacity to care for the Other.
“Showing this work in Geneva, city of international institutions and human rights, carries particular resonance. It’s a way to remind us that forgetting is not inevitable,” says curator Stéphanie Prizreni.

Stéphane Lanoux, a world citizen turned field photographer, has spent over a decade building a personal body of work at the crossroads of testimony, social portraiture, and visual poetry. His work is regularly published and exhibited internationally.

Espace Kugler, a Geneva-based hub of contemporary and cross-disciplinary artistic practices, hosts this exhibition as a call to broaden our gaze on the world.