{"id":167,"date":"2020-09-11T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T09:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:09:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ben-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ben-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ben-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ben-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ben-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ben-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(english below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benjamin Ruffieux(1984) est un photographe ayant \u00e9tudi\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9cole de photographie de Vevey, en Suisse.  A  travaill\u00e9 comme photographe de presse avant de partir naviguer sur les oc\u00e9ans, en 2007. Il vit en semi-nomade depuis lors, \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 dans les Alpes, \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 en Mer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 2015, avec sa compagne M\u00e9lina Repond, il a fond\u00e9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maremotrice.ch\">Mar\u00e9Motrice<\/a>. Cette association organise chaque \u00e9t\u00e9 des r\u00e9sidences d&rsquo;artistes \u00e0 bord d&rsquo;un <a href=\"http:\/\/maremotrice.ch\/fr\/the-ship\">voilier d&rsquo;exp\u00e9dition solaire<\/a>, \u00e0 destination de l&rsquo;Arctique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actuellement son travail de photographe ind\u00e9pendant et de skipper-curateur pour Mar\u00e9Motrice poursuivent le m\u00eame objectif: documenter l&rsquo;\u00e9volution des r\u00e9gions polaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Il r\u00e9alise ses tirages argentiques de grand format dans son propre atelier, sur le Col du Lautaret (Alpes fran\u00e7aises), o\u00f9 est \u00e9tabli son camp de base, \u00e0 2000 m\u00e8tres au dessus du niveau de la mer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">contact: benjamin@maremotrice.ch \/ tel +33 (0)7 84 72 80 42 \/ whatsapp +41(0)77 402 92 09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00e0 visiter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">insta: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/knutsailing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@knutsailing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">youtube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@knutubers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">knutubers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00e0 t\u00e9l\u00e9charger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Portfolio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">porfolio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/catalogue-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">catalogue 1<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Portfolio-Benjamin-Ruffieux_Fr.pdf\">catalogue<\/a>2 \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/catalogue-NE.pdf\">catalogue3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00e0 \u00e9couter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rts.ch\/info\/culture\/9055264--les-evades-du-spitzberg-comme-une-bd-radiophonique.html\">les \u00e9vad\u00e9s du Spitzberg<\/a> (RTS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rts.ch\/play\/radio\/premier-rendez-vous\/audio\/benjamin-ruffieux-et-franois-ve-se-rencontrent-pour-la-premiere-fois?id=10487504\">premier rendez-vous<\/a> (RTS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rts.ch\/play\/radio\/detours\/audio\/a-lepreuve-des-mers-australes?id=4471974\">d\u00e9tours<\/a> (RTS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p>Benjamin Ruffieux (1984) is a photographer who studied at the School of Photography in Vevey, Switzerland. He is an action-packed artist who worked as a press photographer before leaving to sail the oceans in 2007. He has been living as a semi-nomad since then, half of the times in the Alps, the other half at Sea.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">In 2015, with his partner M\u00e9lina Repond, he founded the association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maremotrice.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mar\u00e9Motrice<\/a>. Since then, every summer, he organizes artist residencies on board a solar expedition sailing ship bound for the Arctic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Currently, his work as a freelance photographer and skipper-curator for Mar\u00e9Motrice has the same objective: to document the evolution of the polar regions.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Ruffieux makes his own (often big size) silver prints in his own darkroon, located in the french Alps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>youtube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@knutubers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">knutubers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>insta: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/knutsailing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@knutsailing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>download:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Portfolio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">porfolio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/catalogue-web.pdf\">catalog1<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Portfolio-Benjamin-Ruffieux_Fr.pdf\">catalog2<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminruffieux.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/catalogue-NE.pdf\">catalog3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>contact: benjamin@maremotrice.ch\/tel +33 (0)7 84 72 80 42 \/ whatsapp +41(0)77 402 92 09<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(english below) Benjamin Ruffieux(1984) est un photographe ayant \u00e9tudi\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9cole de photographie de Vevey, en Suisse. A travaill\u00e9 comme photographe de presse avant de partir naviguer sur les oc\u00e9ans, en 2007. Il vit en semi-nomade depuis lors, \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 dans les Alpes, \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 en Mer. En 2015, avec sa compagne M\u00e9lina Repond, il a fond\u00e9 Mar\u00e9Motrice. Cette association organise chaque \u00e9t\u00e9 des r\u00e9sidences d&rsquo;artistes \u00e0 bord d&rsquo;un voilier d&rsquo;exp\u00e9dition solaire, \u00e0 destination de l&rsquo;Arctique. Actuellement son travail de photographe ind\u00e9pendant et de skipper-curateur pour Mar\u00e9Motrice poursuivent le m\u00eame objectif: documenter l&rsquo;\u00e9volution des r\u00e9gions polaires. Il r\u00e9alise ses tirages argentiques de grand format dans son propre atelier, sur le Col du Lautaret (Alpes fran\u00e7aises), o\u00f9 est \u00e9tabli son camp de base, \u00e0 2000 m\u00e8tres au dessus du niveau de la mer. contact: benjamin@maremotrice.ch \/ tel +33 (0)7 84 72 80 42 \/ whatsapp +41(0)77 402 92 09 \u00e0 visiter: insta: @knutsailing youtube: knutubers \u00e0 t\u00e9l\u00e9charger: porfolio catalogue 1 \/ catalogue2 \/ catalogue3 \u00e0 \u00e9couter: les \u00e9vad\u00e9s du Spitzberg (RTS) premier rendez-vous (RTS) d\u00e9tours (RTS) Benjamin Ruffieux (1984) is a photographer who studied at the School of Photography in Vevey, Switzerland. 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