Photographer Andreas Seibert began taking portraits of Long Covid and ME/CFS sufferers a year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the one hand, he was motivated by the question of whether and how photography can capture something that does not really take on material form in front of the camera. On the other hand, he assumed that the high number of infections and the associated post-viral diseases would pose a major challenge for the healthcare system and for society as a whole. As the book’s title suggests, this gave rise to a photographic work about seeing and about life.
Photographer / Author
Andreas Seibert
With texts from
Prof. Milo Puhan / Long Covid
Prof. Kaspar Staub / Pandemics
Young EMERG / ME/CFS
Reflections
Cristina Amrein
Proofreading (German)
Markus Zehentbauer
Translation and
proofreading (English)
Helen Ferguson
Design
so+ba tokyo / zurich
Format 280 × 238mm, 11 × 9.4 in
440 pages, 95 photographs, hardcover
German / English, 2025
ISBN 978-3-033-11102-8
CHF 48.00
Publisher
Bridging Science and Society / Registered Association
The book will be published in spring 2025 with a print run of 1,000 copies. Copies can already be pre-ordered here. The orders will be dispatched in the sequence in which they are received.
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Biography
Andreas Seibert
Born in Wettingen, Switzerland, in 1970. He studied German philology and philosophy at the University of Zurich and photography at Zurich University of the Arts. From 1997 to 2013 he lived in Tokyo and worked intensively in Asia with a focus on China. During this time, he was profoundly influenced by Japanese photography, which is renowned for its in-depth documentary perspective. This inspiration is reflected in the way in which he tackles visual narratives about complex topics such as the social, environmental, and economic challenges of our time, often in conjunction with texts. His photography combines social documentation, critical reflection, and visual poetry. It invites viewers to reflect on the consequences of human action. His work has been published in numerous international magazines and exhibited worldwide.
Milo Puhan
Born in 1975 in Zurich, Switzerland. He is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Zurich, where he heads the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute. Since 2017, he has been President of the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), an association of 13 universities with over 250 teaching staff and more than 400 doctoral students.
Kaspar Staub
Born in 1976 in Bern, Switzerland. The (quantitative) historian and epidemiologist heads the research group “Anthropometry and Historical Epidemiology” at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich. He is a faculty member of the Swiss School of Public Health and a research associate at the Institute of History of the University of Bern.
Cristina Amrein
Born in Bern in 1975, she grew up in Colombia and Switzerland. She developed ME/CFS after being infected with the Epstein-Barr virus when she was twelve. She has lived with this progressively worsening disease for 38 years — without a medical diagnosis for the first 31 years.