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Yohan Nieto (1994, he/him)
Photographer & filmmaker
based in Vevey, Switzerland
hello@yohannieto.ch
Phone: +41 79 665 44 98
Biography
Yohan Nieto (1994) is a photographer who’s work explores contemporary social, political, and cultural issues in the West, within the context of the acceleration and exponential alienation of late capitalism, its drift toward fascism, and the resulting civil resistance. Inspired by the new documentary approaches theorized by Laia Abril and Max Pinckers starting in 2017 and further elaborated in the book When Fact is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era (2019), my work revolves around theatricality, performativity, and collaboration within the documentary genre. Moving between photography, text, and archives, my artistic practice addresses themes related to history and politics, past and present, facts and fiction. My ongoing series, Down the Garden Path, explores the historical memory of Francoism in Galicia through vernacular narratives of repression and the documentation of its contemporary influence on the region and its population.
Portfolio
Education
- BA Photography, CEPV, Vevey, 2023-2025
- Post-CFC Professional Maturity - Visual Arts and Applied Arts, CEPV, Vevey, 2017
- CFC of Interactive Media Designer, ERACOM, Lausanne, 2016
Exhibitions
- SIYU Award, collective exhibition, Photobastei Zürich, October 2025 (coming soon)
- Sudden, Unpredictable Actions, collective diploma exhibition, Renens, June 2025
- Toute ressemblance serait fortuite, collective exhibition, Images Vevey 2024, september 2024
- Soupçonne-moi du meilleur, collective exhibition, Marseille/CEPV, march 2024
- True Colors, collective exhibition, CEPV, december 2023
- Adios Sahara, solo exhibition, Espace Entre Deux-Gares in Vevey,
with the support of l’Office de la Culture de Vevey and Migros, july 2023
- Festival Cinéma Jeune Public, l’Abime Film Screening, 2019
- Schweizer Jugendfilmtage, l’Abime Film Screening, march 2017
- Academy Shorts Fribourg l’Abime Film Screening, march 2017
Publication
- Down the Garden Path, diploma/self-publication, June 2025, limited to 3 copies
- HORS-SCÈNE, collective publication, Images Vevey 2024, september 2024
- Soupçonne-moi du meilleur, collective publication, march 2024
- Let the wind take care of everything, collective publication, february 2024
- Adios Sahara, self-publication, October 2023, limited to 100 copies, ISBN 978-2-8399-4001-6
Competition & awards
- Shortlisted for the Paris Photo Carte Blanche Students 2025 with Down the Garden Path
- Finalist at SIYU Award 2025 with Down the Garden Path
- Shortlisted for the Images Vevey Book Award 2025/2026 with Down the Garden Path
- Selected for Plat(t)form 2025 Fotomuseum Winterthur
- Speaker at Behr Les Mardis du Design 2020
Clients & collaboration
KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival, SKY Switzerland, AISA, SEED Bioscences, St. George’s International School, Hôpital Riviera Chablais, État de Vaud, Ville de Gland, Car Postal (w/ Pixhit), Les Bains de Lavey (w/ Pixhit / Nils Martenet), SEG (w/ Pixhit)
Selected Workshops
Laia Abril (ES), Yann Gross (CH), Benoît Jeannet (CH), Lewis Chaplin (GB), Reiner Riedler (AT), Emin Özmen (TR), Roberto Greco (FR), Regine Petersen (DE), Matilda Olmi (CH), André Cepeda (PT), Elina Brotherus (FI) Anne Golaz (CH), Geert Goiris (BE), Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber (DE), Eric Nehr (CH), David Fathi (FR), Awoiska van der Molen (NL)