Sainf: Place Saint-François 2019-2026

SAINF: award-winning Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang's long-term art project. The Place Saint-François in Lausanne is one of the busiest spaces of the Swiss city: public transportation hub, gathering place, shopping district, and site of civic engagement and demonstrations. Situated on the edge of Lausanne's historic town city centre, it defies a single definition. Shaped by its many uses and architectural styles, as well as by the diversity of people who sojourn or pass through, it manifests a reflection and distillation of contemporary urban life. Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang's long-term art project SAINF, which he has been conducting since 2019, documents everyday life, urban changes, and defining events that shape the Place Saint-François as a public space. The series, shot with a medium-format camera, forms a sensitive fresco in which the passage of time, individual life-paths, and collective tensions intersect. With a patient and attentive eye, SAINF recounts a slice of microcosmic urban history. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Olivier Vogelsang is a Swiss-based freelance documentary photographer. He has been honoured with first prizes at the Swiss Press Photo Awards and won the Prix Nicolas-Bouvier for photography. His previous photo books include Switzerlanders (2012), Grand-messe (2017), and Fractures (2018). SELLING POINTS: . First publication of SAINF, a long-term project by award-winning Swiss photographer Olivier Vogelsang . Olivier Vogelsang's SAINF documents everyday life, urban changes, and defining events at Place Saint-François, a major hub of public life in the Swiss city of Lausanne . The book is designed as an immersive reading experience that constructs a progressive visual narrative through montage . Lausanne's Place Saint-François is a reflection and distillation of contemporary urbanity, revealing social changes, forms of coexistence, and tensions 121 colour, 1 b/w illustrations