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Beat Streuli (born 1957) is a Swiss visual artist who works with photo and video based media.

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At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.

Core, Impossibility, Individuality, Skins, World

. . . I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.

Fulfilling, Half, Image, Imagination, Reality

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

Cities, General, Portraiture, Sense, Traditional, Trying

I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part. . . . I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.

Details, Moving, Opening Up, Take, Trying, Using

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