Photographer

KORNFELD

Photographer Art 50 – 60%

Capture art precisely. Make quality visible. Convey values.

Kornfeld is the leading owner-managed auction house for fine art in Switzerland. Since 1864, we have accompanied our customers personally and across generations, conveying the works entrusted to us with the highest reliability, expertise, care, and appreciation.

We create the place where art connects people.

In order for art to become visible in all its facets and effects and to be presented appropriately, people with a trained eye, technical skill, and a pronounced understanding of quality and precision are needed. For our photography, we are looking for a personality who, with personal responsibility, professionally photographs our artworks and thus makes an important contribution to their documentation, presentation, and communication.

Your Task

As a photographer, you are responsible for the professional photographic capture of our artworks. In our fully equipped photo studio, you will ensure that works of the most diverse genres and materials are reproduced precisely, color-faithfully, and authentically.

Your tasks move between photographic craftsmanship, technical demands, and the special handling of art. Particularly during catalog production, you work independently, reliably, and with a high awareness of quality and deadlines.

You

• photograph artworks for our auctions, publications, website, and other communication media and ensure a consistent, high-quality visual language.
• carefully set up light, camera, and recording conditions for the respective artwork and its special characteristics and independently find suitable photographic solutions for special requirements.
• professionally prepare the recordings digitally and ensure color fidelity, perspective, proportions, and material-appropriate reproduction.
• are responsible for the structured storage, naming, and assignment of image data and ensure their reliable availability.
• work closely with our art experts as well as other internal specialist departments and coordinate the photographic implementation with the respective requirements.
• maintain an overview even with large quantities of works and in intensive phases around the auction and ensure an efficient and reliable process.
• continuously develop our photographic workflows and quality standards together with us and support, if needed, with the photographic documentation of exhibitions, events, and other activities of Kornfeld.

What you bring

We are looking for a personality with a pronounced photographic understanding, a sure sense for image quality, and the willingness to deal with every work individually. You work carefully, independently, and reliably, combining technical skill with attention and appreciation for art.

You have training in the field of photography or a comparable qualification, as well as several years of professional experience in professional photography. You have mastered studio and lighting photography, digital image processing, and professional color management, and are proficient in handling professional camera and lighting technology as well as the common programs for image editing and data management, especially Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

Experience in reproduction or art photography is an advantage. Decisive for us are your pronounced demand for quality, your eye for detail, your ability to work precisely and with concentration even under time pressure, your enjoyment of collaboration, and your flexibility in phases of high and low work volumes. Our working language is German; experience with artworks and interest in the art market are welcome.

How we work at Kornfeld

Personal responsibility, trust, attention, and appreciation shape our actions. Commitment, collaboration, service orientation, and fascination for art determine how we live this attitude in everyday life.

For your function, this means concretely: You take responsibility for the quality of your work, handle the artworks entrusted to us attentively and carefully, and contribute your expertise reliably and actively to the collaboration. In addition to an intensive working phase during catalog production, the position offers high flexibility in the low season.

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