Regula Tschumi Photography Publications
Photographs in Publications
Photographs in Newspapers, Magazines, Journals and books (selection)
CNN, Inside Africa, online; The Sunday Times, GB; GEO: Ausblick, BRD; Leve Magazine, NL; Der Standard: Rondo, AUT; De Morgen, BEL; Frankfurter Allgemeine: Quarterly, BRD; SoulofStreet, BRD; Apartamento Magazine, SP; Internazionale, IT; Eyeshot Magazine, IT; EineWelt, BRD; GEO: Kosmos, BRD; Welt am Sonntag, BRD; Science & Vie, FR; Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, BRD; ARTMAPP, BRD; Drunter & Drüber, BRD; Selvedge Magazine, GB; Art Africa, SA; African Arts, USA; Art Forum, USA; Courrier Japon, J; Panorama, IT; Das Magazin, CH; Africa e Mediterraneo, IT; L’Illustré, CH; Zeitpunkt, CH;
Buried in Style
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2025
For over 20 years Regula Tschumi has documented the extraordinary funeral rituals and aesthetics of the people in southern Ghana. Her new photo book "Buried in Style" brings together her vibrant images and insights into one striking monograph, now available in English and German in all major bookshops or online at Kehrer Verlag.
BUMP Books
May 2025
The BUMP books zine titled "Bowl Carriers" is part of a prize Regula Tschumi received for winning the Series Category at the 2024 Pisa Street Photography Festival.
The zine is sold at BUMP books and can be ordered on their website.
GEO
GEO 05 2025
Ausblick: Fotos des Monats
GHANA Facetten der Marktwirtschaft
p. 12-13.
LEVE Magazine
Hilversum, March 2025
In the issue no 2 of the LEVE magazine 2025, pp. 118-127 show several of Regula Tschumi’s photographs of Ghanaian funerals. The dutch text was written by Roy van Vilsteren. The magazine can be bought at BNNVARA
Exhibition catalog: Body of Evidence
The exhibition catalog Body of Evidence shows 12 photographs from Regula Tschumi's series Ghana figurative coffins 2004-2024.
ISBN 9 788899 901110
Eyeshot Open Call Edition 2023
This 11th edition of the Eyeshot Magazine showcases all the winners and finalists of the Eyeshot Open Call 2023.
Regula Tschumi's photograph titled Dressing up for a New Year event is part of this beautiful publication.
ISBN 979-12-80238-41-2
Siena International Photo Awards 2023
Siena International Photo Awards
"Beyond the Lens"
The most stunning Images of the Siena Awards 2023 Edition
Eyeshot Open Call Book 2022
Eyeshot Bologna
This tenth issue of Eyeshot Magazine, published in November 2022, showcases the thoughtful and creative photographs of the 70 talented photographers who have been selected as the winners, jurors’ picks and finalists of the Eyeshot Open Call 2022.
Paa Joe in an interview with Apartamento Accra
The Ghanaian coffin artist Paa Joe is featured in the Apartamento magazine 2021/22 with 17 archive photos taken by Regula Tschumi.
Women Street Photographers
Published at Prestel 2021
With a rising number of women througout the world picking up their cameras and capturing their surroundings, this book explores the work of 100 women and the experiences behind their greatest images. The volume is curated by Gulnara Samoilova.
Regula Tschumi is part of this book project and her photograph is also on the back cover.
Bunte Trauer (Colorful grief)
EineWelt March-May 2021
Stefan Rambow interviews Regula Tschumi about the colourful mourning rituals in Ghana and the use of the figurative coffins (German), with photographs by Regula Tschumi.
Taz
Petra Schellen interviews R. Tschumi for the Newspaper Taz 21.3.20 (German):
"People celebrate colorful life at the funeral"
Lions, tigers, high-heeled shoes, sometimes a pepper: The current moving exhibition “Mourning. From loss and change” in the Kunsthalle Hamburg presents, among other things, figurative coffins used mainly by people belonging to an old religion in southern Ghana, which continues to exist alongside Christianity.
The buried treasures of the Ga. Coffin art in Ghana
Text & photographs R. Tschumi
Edition Till Schaap, Berne 2014 (2008)
For some fifty years, the Ga of Greater Accra in southern Ghana have produced coffins in the shape of animals, fruits and status symbols. This unique practice is explored in depth here for the first time in a publication featuring a scholarly text and informative illustrations.
Heute Journal ZDF
German ZDF News channel interviews Ulrike Neurath, Regula Tschumi & Martin Wenzel in the Museum für Sepulkralkultur in Kassel (German) 12.8.2019:
"Swiss photographer Regula Tschumi is fascinated by the funeral rituals of the Ga people in Ghana, she is especially interested in their creative coffins. For the Ga, death is a transition and no the end, the bereaved show more joy than tears", ZDF.
Concealed Art. The figurative palanquins and coffins of Ghana
Text & photographs R. Tschumi, Edition Till Schaap, Berne 2014
In this book, Regula Tschumi questions the art world’s established interpretation of the figurative coffins. She also examines for the first time those figurative palanquins, little-known in western art, and shows that they were the forerunners of the figurative coffins.
Ataa Oko et les Esprits / Ataa Oko and the Spirits
A Film by Philippe Lespinasse, Regula Tschumi & Andress Alvarez: Lausanne/Le Tourne, 2009.
Ataa Oko (1919) of Ghana suddenly took up drawing at the age of eighty-three. At first, it was from memory that he drew the personalized figurative coffins that he had once built as a carpenter craftsman, CAB.
Website contributions
CNN Style / Arts
CNN Inside Africa, 1.7.2025
Photographer shows the secretive, colorful world of Ghanaian funerals.
A review of Regula Tschumi's book "Buried in Style" by Thomas Page CNN
Ghana's colourful fantasy coffins - in pictures - The Times
19.6.2025 Sunday Times
The first review of Regula Tschumi's photo book: Buried in Style. Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana, Kehrer Verlag 2025 in the Sunday Times Spectrum:
Oak, mahogny ... or giant Nike trainer? In Ghana, when it comes to coffins, they think outside of the box. The Times 16.6.2025
«Regula Tschumi: la fotografa antropologa»
Fiaf.net December 2024
Il momento in cui ho deciso presentare Regula Tschumi, la sonsideravo una brava fotografa ma non la conoscevo affato come antropologa ed etnologa. Poi pian piano, frequentandola e studiando la sua produzione, mi si è rivelata in tutta la sua grandezza e complessità.
Text: Liliana Ranaletta
Photos: Regula Tschumi
«TODSCHICK
Wo man im Fisch begraben wird»
Rondo Magazine, Der Standard 2.10.2024
Wo man im Fisch begraben wird
In Ghana führen viele Wege ins Grab. Sargmacher entwerfen in Accra die wildesten Modelle. Und haben dabei auch einen neuen Abnehmer gefunden: den internationalen Kunstmarkt.
Text: Florian Siebeck
Photos: Regula Tschumi
«Die Jungen machen immer verrücktere Sachen.» (Quarterly 03/2023)
Quarterly (Issue 03/2023, Florian Siebeck, printed and online)
Regula Tschumi in an interview with the journalist Florian Siebeck talking about the figurative coffins in Ghana.
Published in the prestigious «Quarterly» magazine of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine FAZ.
Buried Treasures: Coffin Art in Ghana (Issue 28, 2021/22)
Apartamento magazine
An interview with Regula Tschumi about her work in Ghana, about the history of the figurative coffins and palanquins, and about the work of some of the most important and innovative young coffin artists in the Greater Accra and in the Central Region.
The text and the photographs are by ©Regula Tschumi.
Ghanaian Coffins, Centre Pompidou, and Coca-Cola
East.East-West
How a local ritual craft turned into an export commodity.
An article about the story told by Kane Kwei (1928-1992) and his family and retold by many Western authors about the origin of the Ghanaian fancy coffins, and how Regula Tschumi’s PhD research disproved this popular version.
UPphotographrs
upphotographers.com 2020
UpPhotographers Interviews Regula Tschumi about:
Who - What - Where - When - Why
Im Huhn begraben / Buried in a Chicken
A video of Fabian Biasio in collaboration with Regula Tschumi, 2018.
In Ghana, the shape of coffins make people: With their fantastic shapes, they are a final greeting from the grave. A car for the chauffeur, a cow for the farmer or a camera for the photographer pay tribute to the deceased. Europeans know the coffin art from Ghana as a bizarre burial culture with a penchant for extravagance. But the coffins hold a secret.
Día de Muertos in Mexico – Einladung an die Toten in Mexiko / Invitation to the Dead
Photos from Mexico by Regula Tschumi, Video by Fabian Biasio (German) 2016
Construis-moi un cercueil (Create me a Coffin)
réformés.ch/culture
French, Nov. 2018
Marie Destraz (Protestinfo) in conversation with R. Tschumi:
The Ga, an ethnic group from southern Ghana, bury their dead in coffins shaped like hens or trucks. Regula Tschumi, ethnologist, art historian and photographer gave a lecture on figurative art that has become a tradition among Christians too, at Cité Seniors in Geneva, on the Day of the Dead.
A Coffin in the Shape of a Hummer Car
Video by I. Bozsa in collaboration with Regula Tschumi for the Museum der Kulturen Basle, 2016.
As reaction to the impact of missionaries and colonial administrations on the local funeral practices, the Ga of Southern Ghana developed a new coffin culture. Coffins are crafted in a wide range of different forms: Popular figures are related to the job of the deceased or their desires during lifetime, MKB.
Awards
With her photo series Regula Tschumi won the Audience Award of the Brussels Street Photography Festival 2025.
2nd Prize in the category single, street photography and amateur of the Chromatic Awards 2024.
1st Prize of the series category at the Pisa Street Photography International Festival 2024.
Honorable Mention Award of the Brussels Street Photography Festival.
BSPF 2024
Winner of the 3rd place and Bronze Star award in the category Daily Life of the Neutral Density Photography Awards 2023.
ND Awards November 2023
Winner of the 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2023 for Women Photographers in the category NON Pro-single Street Photography.
Winner of the Print Swap competition 2021
Italian Street Photo Festival ISPF 2020
First prize
Nominations
2025
Nominee Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025
BSPF Brussels Street Photography Festival (series finalist)
Women Street Photographers WSP Paranapiacab Photo Festival (finalist)
Women Street Photographers New York Festival (finalist)
2024
Livorno Photo Meeting (finalist)
Siena International Photo Awards (finalist)
Pisa Street Photography Festival PSPI (series finalist)
Foto Festival Lenzburg (finalist)
Brussels Street Photography Festival BSPF (finalist)
Italian Street Photo Festival ISPF (finalist)
Women Street Photographers Annual Exhibition NY (finalist)
2023
Livorno Photo Meeting 2023
Eyeshot Open Call 2023
Italian Street Photo Festival ISPF Rome
The Independent Photographer IP
The FC’Diary Magazine Open Call
2022
Eyeshot Open Call 2022
Women Street Photographers at the Indian Photo Festival Hyderabad
International Biennial of Photography IV in Guayaquil, Ecquador
2021
Italian Street Photo Festival ISPF
Rome
World Water Day Contest, Italy
2020
Women Street Photographers New York
Women Street Photographers Trieste Photo Days
Siena International Photo Awards SIPA
London Street Photography Festival LSPF
Fuji Film Moment Street Photo Awards, Poland
Women Street Photographers Kuala Lumpur
Italian Street Photo Festival ISPF Rome
2019
Women Street Photographers New York
Miami Street Photography Festival MSPF
Women Street Photographers Brussels
Group Exhibitions
2025
Venice Photo Lab
10. - 24.10.2025 Venice
Women Street Photographers Paranapiacap Photo Festival
4. - 7.9.2025 Brazil
Nuit de l'Année, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles
22.7.2025 Arles, France
Brussels Street Photography Festival
28.5. - 15.6.2025 Brussels, Belgium
Women Street Photographers at the Sao Paolo Photo Festival
17.-18.5.2025 Brazil
V International Biennial of Photography of Guayaquil
Museo Luis Noboa Naranjo
29.4. - 23.5.2025
Street Badass & Paris Street Photo Festival
16.- 19.4.2025 Paris
Women Street Photographers New York Photo Festival
10. - 13.4.2025 New York
2024
Livorno Photo Meeting
Livorno, Italy 15. - 17.11.2024
Les Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech
Marrakech, Morocco 23.10. - 27.10.2024
Pisa Street Photography Festival 2024
Pisa, Italy 21. - 22.9.2024
Magic Ghana
Gallery Magnin-A Paris, 13.9.- 26.10.2024
Treviso Photographic Festival
Treviso, Italy 5.9. - 24.9.2024
Views from the Street
Colorado Photographic Arts Center CPAC, Denver USA
16.8. - 4.10.2024
Cortona on the Move: Body of Evidence
Cortona, Italy 11.7.- 3.11.2024
Foto Festival Lenzburg 2024
Exhibition in the town of Lenzburg
25.5.- 26.6.2024
Brussels Street Photo Festival BSPF 2024
Exhibition of the winners and finalists in Brussels
30.5.-16.6.2024
Italian Street Photo Festival ISPF
Exhibition of the winners and finalists
26.- 28.4.24
Belluno Photo Festival in Belluno, Italy
25.4.- 9.6.2024
Annual Women Street Photographers WSP exhibition in New York.
12.- 29.4.2024
Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah, United Emirates.
28.2.- 5.3.2024
2023
Livorno Photo Meeting. Exhibition in Livorno of all the winners and finalists 2023.
17.-19.11.2023 in Livorno
Street sans Frontières / Image Nation Paris
Galerie Joseph le Palais in Paris, 10. - 12.11.2023
Exploring Humanity Through the Lens: Eyeshot's Open Call 2023
3.11. - 28.1.2024 Magazzini Fotografici in Naples
People Sharing all the World. Winners and Honorable mentions of the Siena Awards 2023
1.10. - 19.11.23 in Siena
Treviso Photographic Festival
5.9.- 24.9.2023 in Treviso
A wall of women by women. A group exhibition at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in Australia.
26.8.- 22.10.2023
Italian Street Photography Festival ISPF exhibition of all the winners and the finalists.
28.- 30.4.2023
Annual Women Street Photographers WSP exhibition in New York
14.4. – 30.4.2023
53 Women Street Photographers by WSP founder Gulnara Samoilova
On view 15.2.-10.3.2023 online
On view 14.4.- 30.4.23 at the annual WSP exhibition NY
2022
50 Women Street Photographers
At the Indian Photo Festival in Hyderabad
18.11. - 19.12.2022
Eyeshot Open Call 2022
70 Finalists and all the winners
Galleria del Cembalo
Rome 17.11. - 23.11.2022
Worlds of Women WOW
Trieste Photo Days in Trieste, Italy
25.10.- 30.10.2022
Treviso Photographic Festival
An international photo exhibition in Treviso, Italy
6.9. - 25.9.2022
Die Geister spielen Fussball
Museum der Völker in Schwaz, Austria
28.5. - 1.10.2022
Street sans Frontières
80 international photographers in Paris
27.-29. May 2022
IV Bienal international de Fotografia de Guayaquil
Museuo Luis Noboa Naranjo Ecquador
ClampArt Gallery, New York
60 photographers selected by Print Swap
2.3.2022
2021
6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography
Fotonostrum Gallery Barcelona
9.12. - 8.1.2022
National Museum of Anthropology Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
An international photo exhibition with works of 60 women street photographers.
4.11.- 4.12.2021
Venice Photo Lab
An international photo exhibition in Venice 8 - 17.10.2021
Treviso Photographic Festival
An international photo exhibition in Treviso 7.9. - 23.9.2021
50 Women Street Photographers
2nd virtual WSP exhibition curated by Gulnara Samoilova and Ximena Echague
29.8.- 31.10.2021
GHANA!
A group exhibition in the Casita gallery Berne, Switzerland
20.8. - 26.8.2021
50 Women Street Photographers
A inaugural virtual WSP exhibition curated by Gulnara Samoilova and Ximena Echague
2.5. - 1.7.2021
Double Trouble (part of the Head On Photo Festival 2020 in Sidney)
Brisbane, Australia 9.3. - 28.3.2021
Fujifilm Moment Street Photo Awards Poland
Winners and finalists 2020 in the Cultural Center Gaudemater
Czestochowa, Poland, 1.2. - 26.2.2021
2020
85 Women Street Photographers; Art Space PS109 New York City
10.12.2020 - 2.1.2021
Women Street Photographers at the Indian Photo Festival in Hyderabad, India. An online exhibition 12.11. - 13.12.2020
Double Trouble at the Head On Photo Festival. Printed exhibition, Bondi Beach, Sidney
9.11. - 30.11.2020
Siena International Photo Awards
24.10. - 29.11.2020
56 Women Street Photographers at the Accademia Scaglia during the Trieste Photo Days in Italy.
17.10. - 8.11.2020
46 Women Street Photographers
An online exhibition curated by Gulnara Samoilova at the Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival in Malaysia 19.8. - 19.9.2020
Double Trouble (part of the Head On Photo Festival), an online exhibition, Sydney
1.5. - 17.5.2020
2019
Women Street Photographers: Art Space PS109 New York City, 12.12. - 2.1.2020
Miami Street Photography Festival: History Miami Museum, Miami 5.- 8.12.2019
Women Street Photographers, Muntpunt, Brussels, 4.10. - 12.10.2019
With the line bus to the other side. Fantastic coffins from Ghana – Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel
ImageNation Arles, Gallery des Arènes Arles, 15 .- 20.7.19
Street sans Frontières, an international photo exhibition in Paris, May 2019
2018
Shapes of the Ancestors: Bodies, Animals, Art, and Ghanaian Fantasy Coffins – Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington USA.
Celebration! – Permanent exhibition of the MAS, Museum Aan de Stroom, Antwerpen
Street sans Frontières
An international photo exhibition in Paris, May 2018
Unvergessen machen (make unforgotten)
Museum of the Peoples, Schwaz in Austria – mdv
2017
Until 2021 L’impermanence des choses – Permanent exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum Neuchâtel – MEN
Accra– Portraits of a City – ANO Gallery of Nana Oforiatta Ayim in Accra, Ghana
Until 2018 Jambo Africa – Tropical House, Wolhusen, Switzerland
2016
Until 2018 C’est la vie — Museum of Natural History, Berne
2014
Diesseits – Jenseits – Abseits. Funeral traditions worldwide — Museum of the University, Tübingen MUT
2013
Les Hors-Champs de L‘Affiche — Ethnographic Museum Neuchâtel — MEN exhibition archives
2012 / 2013
Hors-Champs — Ethnographic Museum Neuchâtel — MEN exhibition archives
2011
Griff Rhys Jones’ Ghanaian fantasy coffin — Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
People and Possession Gallery — National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
Until 2015: Living and Dying Gallery — British Museum, London
2008
Der letzte Schnaufer — Luftmuseum Amberg, Amberg
2007
Six Feet Under — Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Six pieds sous terre — Photoforum Meyrin, Geneva
2006
Six Feet Under — Art Museum, Berne