Buildings, objects and the people who make them.

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Architecture — Editorial — Still life

© 2026 — Zürich / Milan

Nora Steinmann

Studio

Based

Zürich, working anywhere

Formats

Medium format and 4×5

Works in

Daylight, mostly

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Within two days

I photograph buildings, objects and the people who make them — slowly, mostly on medium format, mostly in daylight.

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Selected work

Four projects,

photographed slowly.

A selection from the last three years — each one shot on location, in daylight.

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Services

Four ways

to work together.

From a single afternoon on location to a book made over a year.

01

Architecture

Buildings, interiors and the light that moves through them. Scouted first, shot in daylight.

02

Editorial

03

Still life

04

Commissions

Half or full day

From CHF 1'400

01

Architecture

Buildings, interiors and the light that moves through them. Scouted first, shot in daylight.

02

Editorial

Portraits and stories for magazines and books, on location or in the studio.

03

Still life

Objects, materials and the people who make them, photographed as a sequence.

04

Commissions

Long projects, books and exhibitions, planned and edited together.

In numbers

Seven years,

four numbers.

Counted since the first commission in Zürich, 2019 — and still counting.

07

Years in practice

Since the first commission in Zürich, 2019 — architecture first, people soon after.

140+

Commissions

For architects, magazines and makers across Switzerland and northern Italy.

38

Publications

Covers, features and two monographs, in print and on screen.

248

Frames in the archive

The personal work, shot between commissions, open in Universe.

Seven years, one camera, no shortcuts.

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Clients

Nora photographs a building the way we hoped people would walk through it.

She waited two days for the light. The cover was worth both of them.

Our objects have never looked this calm, or this honest.

Quiet, precise, on time. We booked her for the whole book.

01

Atelier Vogt

Lena Vogt — Zürich

02

Halden

Marco Bellini — Milan

03

Studio Kessler

Sofia Kessler — Basel

04

Form Bureau

Jonas Brandt — Berlin

Pricing

Three ways

to book.

Every commission is quoted in full before the first frame. Prices in CHF, excluding VAT.

Journal

Notes from the field,

on light and places.

Short essays on light, places and the slow craft of making pictures.

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Questions

Before

you write.

The five questions that come up in almost every first email.

How far ahead should I book?

Four to six weeks for most shoots. Commissions are planned together, usually two months out.

Do you travel?

What if the weather turns?

Who owns the images?

How do we start?

READY WHEN YOU ARE.

Tell me what you are making. A sentence is enough to start.

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