Janosch Abel

Director: Janosch Abel
Director of Photography: Boas Wigger
Lighting: Pius Bacher & Michele di Fede
Assistant Camera: Nino Ubezio
Production Assistant: Chiara Loetscher
BTS: Aline Flach

Thank you: Hemedi, Sanjuta, Nico,Manuel & FC Wyler for the support and Zumi Rent for the gear

Coming from an individual sport (swimming), I always valued the role of the training group. Since some years I am in team sports (football), now as a photographer and a coach, and the training group now fascinates me in a different way. Performance, and more importantly, learning, are deeply dependent on the team.

A team is made up of different personalities, not just different playing styles. Every child brings their own strengths, fears, and perspectives. Learning to be brave, support each other, and accept failure is just as important as learning the skills for the game.

Personal Project with the help of great people.

Soccer Kids

That's my team!

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Peggy Gou

Portraits

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Patrick Seabase

Sports

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Spending time on an island with a five-time
Ironman World Champion.
Capturing our thoughts in the form of images and text.
Words: Urs Rihs

On the bike, Daniela becomes the angry bird. Ambitious and impatient and the best of her triathlon self. Even above 400 watts, the death-zone of cycling, Daniela stays furiously on it. The gaze turns laser and her lips get touched by a devilish grin. After the ride there follows confession: “What I hate most about being a top athlete, is to be bound to egoism. Which I am not. I miss my friends and my family while being this lonely, world roaming nomad. And I also like to do nothing, to just hang around – but more likely, I like to be the best.”

Flat morning sunlight on a top floor gym above some random holiday village downtown Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Daniela Ryf is an early bird. Especially when it comes to the treadmill, the favorite of her exercise machines. She loves to stomp the hell out of it. Dedicated, fearless to encounter the notion of the automatic, giving in as much pace as possible to reach bodily redemption. Sweat sprays from her limbs and a rainbow appears rendering the exhaust visible. After the session the white tip mesh of her running shoes has turned red.

Warm up laps, Daniela slams down two kilometers hauling a sponge on a rope. The partial object in tow line gives the scene a touch of fetishlike reverberation. “No dogma is my success. Customized training, there is no right or wrong, just working stuff or not.”

It’s Brett Sutton talking, Danielas Coach who used to be a professional boxer, greyhound and racehorse trainer back in the day. “I am paid to protect her. And sometimes this means to keep her off competition mode to prevent a burn-out. The sponge allows her to swim at ease and shut down thinking. It’s not her fault being slower, it’s just this thing restraining her.”

The Gas station was the Archimedian point of our stay on Gran Canaria. Before and after the extensive shootings with Daniela Ryf, we went there to get fueled. Gasolina sin plomo de 98 octanos for our rental and lots of “cortados” for us. Our predilection for this milk splashed espresso turned out to be more than just a matter of caffeine crave. It guaranteed for the benediction of the Las Palmas cab drivers whose union was running the bar.

Canary Islands

Daniela Ryf

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German 100m sprinter Alexandra Burghard for On running.

Alexandra Burghard

On

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Alexandre Balmer

Gruppetto Magazin

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Gruppetto Magazin

Stefan Küng

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Der Wallismann

11 Freunde

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Fingerscrossed is a design studio based in Munich, Germany.
The founders Susanne & Patrick are passionate about cycling and design in all its facets.

Fingerscrossed

Col du Sanetsch

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BSC YB x Amnesty International

Gemeinsam gegen Rassismus!

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Collection A/W22

Sneakerness and BSC Young Boys

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High winds and rough waters. Mainly famous for its big waves, Nazaré offers an impressive variety of roads, where traffic is almost non-existent. Resulting in perfect riding conditions.

Patrick Seabase

Nazare

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Watchmaker Rexhep Rexhepi for Hodinkee Magazine.

Rexhep

Hodinkee

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Styling: Marlise Isler
Hair & MakeUp: Philipp Keusen
Assisting: Florian Spring
Location: UNIK Gym Bern, Switzerland
Postproduction: Lorenz Wahl
Models: Scout Models

Swatch

Be Bold

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PR portraits for the Swiss writer Arno Camenisch
captured in Biel, Switzerland

Der Schatten über dem Dorf

Arno Camenisch

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Hi, I’m Janosch.

I’m curious about people- what drives them, what they care about, the ideas they have and the stories they carry with them. I work across photography and moving image.

I like working with people who are deeply committed to what they do, who care about it and have fun doing it. I like spending time with people, getting involved in the process and taking the lead in shaping the work- keeping things natural, focused and considered, whether working independently or alongside agencies, brands and institutions.

Based in Bern, Switzerland, I work on editorial, cultural and commercial projects locally and internationally.

I swim, ride and run- more than my Strava account shows.

Selected Clients: Asics, On, Swiss Olympic, Whoop, Swatch, Hodinkee, Amnesty International, 11 Freunde, ZEIT Literatur, T Magazine –Le temps, Das Magazin, Gruppetto

+41 78 647 89 24
info@janoschabel.com

Projection Design
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Agent
Vera Schmid
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+41 76 388 72 31

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Code: Roger Burkhard