Toni Kuhn is a renowned film, video and still photographer, born in Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, on December 6, 1942. Toni arrived in Mexico at the age of 22. He had initially arrived in the country for a three-month stay, but has remained in the country for more than 50 years, naturalized as a Mexican. As a child, at the age of eight, a relative had given him an 8 mm camera, which he never let go of, he recorded everything around him and, little by little, this would become a true vocation. Two years after his arrival in Mexico, Toni entered the cuecdespite the language difficulties he faced at the beginning.

Entrevistas

Beams of light: the cinematographic gaze of Luc-Toni Kuhn

Interview with
  • Toni Kuhn

  • Arturo Gutierrez del Angel

Toni Kuhn's work is a continuity and part of this great tradition of Mexican cinematographers, such as Gabriel Figueroa, Alex Phillips, Jack Draper, Agustín Jiménez, to name a few. They were his teachers, his references, although they did not give him - as he tells us - a visual, photographic eye, because whether you are born with it or not, it is almost a substitute for the language itself, for the multiple languages, which, he says, he learned in his native Switzerland and which he knew, in one way or another, how to translate into images and capitalize it with a reality that Mexico imposed on him. In this interview, Toni tells us about the beams of light that he has captured throughout his long-lived work.