Mark Henley

Editorial, 2016

The coming man

The would-be leader of the CVP/PDC politician Gerhard Pfister, driving through Zug, his home canton, at the wheel of his Mercedes. — Driving politics thinking pfister

The would-be leader of the CVP/PDC politician Gerhard Pfister, taking with fellow party members in the Zug parliament, during local elections. — politics zug pfister

The would-be leader of the CVP/PDC politician Gerhard Pfister, leaving the Zug parliament, walking out into a snow storm. — pfister snow zug

The would-be leader of the CVP/PDC politician Gerhard Pfister, in his appartment in Oberägeri, in Canton Zug — pfister politics gesture

The would-be leader of the CVP/PDC politician Gerhard Pfister, looking out from Zugerberg down on Zug city. He is standing outside an International School of which he is a director. — pfister politics zug

Projektbeschrieb

A commissioned work, following the coming man – Gerhard Pfister - the only candidate to head the CVP/PDC centre right party.
Working with a journalist, we followed him - went with him - on a winter Sunday of local elections in Zug, between the parliament, his home, his school, and his party's election celebrations – in his world. The question for the journalist was clear: who really was this enigmatic man, and would he take the party further to the right, in line with his avowed political positions – and so they had long discussions fencing around in Swiss-German, which I do not speak. This left me free to observe, working, as requested in black and white, using a film noir style, that I had previously used for another - non-political but still secretive - issue.
A few days after that Sunday, his rise was confirmed, and the piece was published when he took up his post. The coming man had been crowned.

Publikationsinformationen

Titel der Arbeit: The coming man
Publikation: Das Magazin
Ausgabe: No9 9-4-2016