Jeremy Spierer
Portrait of Jeremy Spierer holding a Leica camera
Jeremy Spierer in the studio, 2026

About

Statement

Since childhood, my eyes have lingered on what I was not supposed to see. I never stopped looking; I only stopped hiding.

My flash is a confession. It writes me into the scene and tears from the moment what the eye lets slip: skin without artifice, a gesture tipping over, instinct rising to the surface. From burnt-out white to total black, I am not after the beautiful picture, but the emotion that makes me press the shutter.

In the street, I go unseen. In the studio, I face something wild. It is the same chase, and she always has the last word: she looks me in the eye, then she looks at you. In front of my pictures, you are the one caught in the act.

Jeremy Spierer

Jeremy Spierer photographing a model lying on the floor of the studio
In the studio, on set

Biography

Born in Geneva in 1986, Jeremy Spierer is a self-taught photographer. Since 2011 he has worked in the street and in the studio, with Leica cameras and a direct flash. He counts Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki among his influences.

He taught at the Leica Akademie Switzerland in 2019 and 2020 and has since mentored photographers privately. Two chapters of the book Inspiration Leica Akademie (Heidi and Robert Mertens, 2020) are devoted to his work. He edited Backstage, a magazine from the 2018 and 2019 Cannes Film Festivals. After his first solo exhibition at Galerie Fahid Taghavi in Geneva in 2013, he showed in Paris, Tel Aviv and London, then at MAZE Art Gstaad and MAZE Art St. Moritz in 2026. CROCO, a duo exhibition with the painter Tiphaine Koltes, opens at Galerie Fahid Taghavi in November 2026. He received the Photo Democracy Award (selected by Steve McCurry) and first prize at the Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3).

CV

Selected exhibitions

  1. 2026CROCO — Duo exhibitionSalle Centrale de la Madeleine, Geneva
  2. 2026MAZE Art St. Moritz — Art fairHotel Reine Victoria, Theatersaal, St. Moritz
  3. 2026MAZE Art Gstaad — Art fairFestival-Zelt, Gstaad
  4. 2022Pretty Mundane — Duo exhibitionGalerie Fahid Taghavi, Geneva
  5. 2021Lost Station 2 — Group exhibitionGalerie Fahid Taghavi, Geneva
  6. 2021Lost Station — Group exhibitionGalerie Fahid Taghavi, Geneva
  7. 2021Collective exhibition — Group exhibitionSalle Favre, La Madeleine, Geneva
  8. 2020Jeremy Spierer — Solo presentationSalle Favre, La Madeleine, Geneva
  9. 2019Collective exhibition — Group exhibitionGalerie Fahid Taghavi, Monnetier, France
  10. 2017Urban Decay Vol. 2 — Duo exhibitionFoound, Rue Jean-Dassier 7, Geneva
  11. 2015Urban Decay — Duo exhibitionLe Bal des Créateurs, 25 rue de l'Arquebuse, Geneva
  12. 2014Lux in silentio — Group exhibitionPorte de la Treille exhibition space, Geneva
  13. 2013Photo Democracy Award — Award exhibitionChris Beetles Fine Photographs, London
  14. 2013First solo exhibition — Solo exhibitionGO OUT! exhibition space, Rue du Diorama 16, Geneva
  15. 2012Hurbanism — Award exhibitionHaRiviera Gallery, Bat Yam, Israel

Awards

  1. 2014PX3, Prix de la Photographie ParisFirst Prize, Book Proposal (Series), for Border of Faith
  2. 2013Photo Democracy Award, LondonSelected by Steve McCurry
  3. 2012Hurbanism photography competition, HaRiviera Gallery, Bat YamThird Prize for “Adversity”; jury including Ziv Koren

Teaching

  1. 2020–Private lessonsOne-to-one lessons
  2. 2019–20Leica Akademie SwitzerlandPhotography courses

Publications

  1. 2020Inspiration Leica Akademie — two chaptersBook by Heidi and Robert Mertens
  2. 2018–19Backstage — editorMagazine, Cannes Film Festival

Exhibitions and awards Works on Artsy