Ester Vonplon Blazing White

Ester Vonplon

Ester Vonplon (*1980) lives and works in Castrisch in the Swiss canton of the Grisons. She studied photography at the Schiffbauerdamm school of photography in Berlin from 2004 to 2008 and went on to complete her Master’s degree at the Zurich University of the Arts from 2011 to 2013. Since 2009, Ester Vonplon has exhibited her works individually and in group exhibitions both in and outside the country. In 2017, she received the Manor Cultural Prize and the SAC (Swiss Alpine Club) Art Prize. Vonplon’s art is intensely preoccupied with the Alpine region, but she has also traveled to Eastern Europe, Russia, North America, and the Arctic for her photographic research.