Andri Pol

Inside CERN

European Organization for Nuclear Research

For most people locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology often remain hidden from view. They are separate and protected, such as CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, close to the city of Geneva. CERN is best known for its giant particle accelerator. Here researchers from around the world take part in a diverse array of fundamental physical research, in the pursuit of knowledge that will perhaps one day revolutionize our understanding of the universe and life on our planet.

The Swiss photographer Andri Pol and author Peter Stamm mixed with this multicultural community of researchers and followed their work over an extended period of time. In doing so he created a unique portrait of this fascinating world. The cutting-edge research is given a human face and even if we don’t fully understand the processes at work, the pictures allow us to perceive how in this world of the tiniest particles the biggest connections are searched for. With an explanatory text and scientific-philosophical essay.

For most people locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology often remain hidden from view. They are separate and protected, such as CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, close to the city of Geneva. CERN is best known for its giant particle accelerator. Here researchers from around the world take part in a diverse array of fundamental physical research, in the pursuit of knowledge that will perhaps one day revolutionize our understanding of the universe and life on our planet.

The Swiss photographer Andri Pol and author Peter Stamm mixed with this multicultural community of researchers and followed their work over an extended period of time. In doing so he created a unique portrait of this fascinating world. The cutting-edge research is given a human face and even if we don’t fully understand the processes at work, the pictures allow us to perceive how in this world of the tiniest particles the biggest connections are searched for. With an explanatory text and scientific-philosophical essay.

English edition – also available in German


Pol’s images communicate the ordinary of the extraordinary
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Author(s): Andri Pol

Foreword by Lars Müller and Andri Pol

With contributions by Peter Stamm and Rolf Heuer

20 × 27,5 cm, 7 ¾ × 10 ¾ in

432 pages, 295 illustrations

paperback

2014, 978-3-03778-275-0, English
CHF 55.00

Andri Pol

Andri Pol, born in 1961, is a Swiss photographer. He trained to be a drawing teacher at the Schule für Gestaltung in Lucerne and now works as a freelance photographer for newspapers and journals. Since 2001 he works as photographer and image editor for the GEO Magazine Switzerland. Additional collaborations include Das Magazin, NZZ am Wochenende or National Geographic Germany.