2025
2025
for one year in the Bachelor’s program Visual Communication, Camera Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), with a focus on photography. Following a gap year and an internship with fashion photographer Lukas Wassmann,
he began his photography studies at ECAL
in the summer of 2025.
Currently in Lausanne / Zürich
available worldwide
Contact:
shivagisiger@gmail.com
Instagram:
shiva.gisiger
and has also served as an Instagram content creator for HSLU DFK. Since early 2023,
he has been a member of the organizing committee of the photography association Cameras and Beers Baden.
"Juf lies above the tree line and, at 2126 meters above sea level, is Europe's highest year-round inhabited village. It is located near the San Bernadino and belongs to the Graubünden municipality of Avers. The high valley was settled in the 15th century by the German-speaking Walsers and today a total of 30 people live there. The project deals with life in the highest village in Europe during the harsh winter.”
Photobook and video on the topic of resilience, created during the study program Camera Arts.
For the second edition of the book there was a vernissage held at the The Film Lab Zürich.
The Book is currently available there.
Fireshtein is a three-minute short film by
Shiva Gisiger, created as part of his photography studies at ECAL.The film tells an open-ended story about a protagonist who uses fire to find closure with her past. Inspired by Nordic and Slavic myths surrounding the flint stone, the title simultaneously references the lead actress's original family name.
Cocaine, 2026
A fictional photoseries about one of the most used drugs and different aspects that are tied to it.
54, colloquially referred to as foif vier, stands for the zip code 5400 in Baden. Beyond the small town itself, the project focuses primarily on the photographer's inner circle of friends, documented over a five-year period. The book traces his journey from his time at the Kantonsschule Wettingen to his photography studies at ECAL in Lausanne.