Regula Tschumi Photography Publications
Photographs in Publications
Photographs printed in Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, calendars and books (selection)
50plus, CH; Quest.nl, NL; IL Manifesto, It; Amateur Photographer, GB; The Guardian, GB; NZZ Panorama, CH; 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; Soul of Street, BRD; Apartamento Magazine, SP; Internazionale, IT; Eyeshot Magazine, IT; Eine Welt, 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;
R. Tschumi: Buried in Style. Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana
Kehrer Verlag July 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", Kehrer Verlag.
R. Tschumi: Mit Stil auf die letzte Reise. Ghanas dynamische Bestattungskultur
Regula Tschumi wrote the essay: "Mit Stil auf die letzte Reise. Ghanas dynamische Bestattungskultur" (pp. 152 - 163) for the exhibition catalog "Echo des Unbekannten", edited by Matthias Rataiczyk, Kunsthalle Talstrasse Saale (Halle), Germany.
One World Calendar 2026
Helvetas Panoram Calendar 2026
With her photo “A Delicate Balance” Regula Tschumi is part of the OWC Panorama calendar 2026 which is published by several non-profit organisations and sold all over Europe.
R. Tschumi: Bowl Carriers
Bump Books, May 2025
The BUMP books zine "Bowl Carriers" is part of a prize Regula Tschumi received for winning the 2024 Pisa Street Photography Festival.
The zine can be ordered on the Bump book website.
GEO: Ausblick, 2025
GEO Ausblick 05 2025
Regula Tschumi's photograph A delicate balance published in the GEO Magazine in Ausblick, p. 12-13.
CPAC 2025 Calendar
Colorado Photographic Arts Center 2024
For the calendar 2025 of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) the museum selected 13 artists who were exhibited at their gallery in 2024.
Regula Tschumi's "Girls Games", a photo from 2024, is part of the calendar.
Exhibition catalog: Body of Evidence
Cortona on the Move 2024
The exhibition catalog Body of Evidence shows 12 photographs from Regula Tschumi's series Ghana figurative coffins 2004-2024.
Eyeshot Open Call Edition 2023
This 11th edition of the Eyeshot Magazine showcases 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. "Beyond the Lens"
The most stunning images of the 2023 Edition
Siena International Photo Awards 2023
Regula Tschumi's photo "A Delicate Balance" was 2nd classified and published on p. 52-53 in this catalog.
Eyeshot Open Call Edition 2022
This tenth issue of Eyeshot Magazine, published in November 2022, showcases 70 photographers who are winners and finalists of the Eyeshot Open Call 2022.
Apartamento magazine in conversation with Paa Joe
Paa Joe is featured in the Apartamento magazine 2021/22 with 17 photos taken by Regula Tschumi in Paa Joe's workshop in Nungua in Ghana.
G. Samoilova (ed.): Women Street Photographers
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's photo A Dance of Joy is part of this book and this photograph is also on the back cover.
GEO : Kosmos
GEO 01 2020
Regula Tschumi's photo A Dance of Joy (2019) featured in the prestigious GEO magazine for "Kosmos: Unterwegs in der Welt", p. 16-17.
R. Tschumi: 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.
R. Tschumi: The Deathbed for a Living Man. A coffin for the Centre Pompidou, 2012
@Editions du Centre Pompidou 2012
"The Deathbed for a Living Man": A text by Regula Tschumi with her photographs for the exhibition catalog Anthologie de l'humour noir, edited by Saâdane Afif for his show in the Centre Pompidou in Paris 2012.
Website contributions
How Ghana turns funerals into art: Regula Tschumi's 20-year journey
About Photography, 15.11.2025
"Buried in Style explores one of the most extraordinary funeral traditions in the world, the vibrant and artistic burial culture of Ghana’s Ga-Adangme people. In this community, death is not only mourned but celebrated through creativity, color, and craftsmanship...,"
Martin Kaninsky in conversation with Regula Tschumi.
Ghana Funerario, coloratissimo
Manuela De Leonardis: Il Manifesto 7.9.2025
A book review by Manuela de Leonardis of "Buried in Style", published in the Sunday edition of the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto.
Buried in a Teapot: The fantastical world of Ghana’s funerals, where coffins take every shape imaginable
Amateur Photographer, 16.9.2025
"Swiss social anthropologist Regula Tschumi spent over two decades photographing Ghana’s vibrant funeral culture. Her new book, Buried in Style, is a celebration of life, death, and transformation — not just for her subjects, but for the photographer herself". Peter Dench in Amateur Photographer, 16.9.2025.
Sargkunst in Ghana
Lebendig begraben - SPIEGEL
Nadine Wolter interviews Regula Tschumi about her new book "Buried in Style".
Fish, teapots and pineapple! Ghana's most stylish coffins - in pictures - The Guardian
"Under the mantra 'celebrate death as we celebrate life', funerals in Ghana can be colourful affairs filled with dances and personalised coffins - as Regula Tschumi's stunning photos attest."
The Guardian about Regula Tschumi's new book Buried in Style. Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana-
NZZ In einer Teekanne, in einer Ananas – in Ghana reist man stilvoll ins Jenseits
"In Teilen Ghanas wird der Tod so zelebriert wie das Leben. Eine Schweizer Ethnologin dokumentiert die Bestattungskultur des afrikanischen Landes in einem Fotobuch", Salome Woerlen, NZZ.
Photographer shows the secretive, colorful world of Ghanaian funerals
CNN Inside Africa, 1.7.2025
CNN journalist Thomas Page in conversation with Regula Tschumi about her new book "Buried in Style", 1.7.2025.
Ghana's colourful fantasy coffins - in pictures - The Times
Sunday Times 19.6.2025
"Oak, mahogny ... or giant Nike trainer? In Ghana, when it comes to coffins, they think outside of the box."
A review of Buried in Style. Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana in the Sunday Times Spectrum.
Regula Tschumi: la fotografa antropologa
Liliana Ranaletta, 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", Liliana Ranaletta.
«TODSCHICK
Wo man im Fisch begraben wird»
Rondo Magazine, Der Standard 2.10.2024 (print and online)
"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 and photos Regula Tschumi.
«Die Jungen machen immer verrücktere Sachen.»
FAZ "Quarterly", Issue 03/2023, printed and online
Florian Siebeck in conversation with Regula Tschumi about her work in Ghana, about figurative coffins and about her discoveries of the figurative palanquins.
Buried Treasures: Coffin Art in Ghana
Apartamento magazine
Issue 28, 2021/22
Regula Tschumi about her research 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.
Ghanaian Coffins, Centre Pompidou, and Coca-Cola.
How a local ritual craft turned into an export commodity.
The story told by Kane Kwei (1928 -1992) and his family and retold by many Western authors about the origin of the Ghanaian figurative coffins, and how Regula Tschumi’s PhD disproved this popular version.
UPphotographrs
upphotographers.com 2020
UpPhotographers Interviews Regula Tschumi about:
Who - What - Where - When - Why she photographs.
Construis-moi un cercueil (Create me a Coffin)
réformés.ch/culture
French, Nov. 2018
"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", Maria Destraz, Protestinfo.
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
Awards
Single photo winner of the Open Call - Forever Happy
Fotofestival Lenzburg 2026
Regula Tschumi won the series Audience Award of the Brussels Street Photography Festival 2025.
Winner of the 3rd place and Bronze Star award in the category Daily Life of the Neutral Density Photography Awards 2023.
Neutral Density Photography Awards 2023
2nd Prize Siena International Photo Awards
Category: People & Adventures, 2023
Siena Awards 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
Patti Fogarty award of the Women Street Photographers Annual Exhibition in New York 2021.
Italian Street Photo Festival ISPF 2020
First prize
Nominations
2025
Selected for the international One World Calendar OWC 2026
Fotofestival Lenzburg (single image winner, exhibition 2026)
Nominee Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025
Rome Photo Lab (finalist)
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
2026
Upcoming group- and solo exhibitions:
Ending the Beginning...
11.12.2025 - 28.2.2026 Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana
Gallery & Restaurant Canvetto Luganese
Fondazione Diamante, solo exhibition, 9.5. - 3.10.2026
Fotofestival Lenzburg: Open Call - Forever Happy, winners category single photo
9.5. - 6.6.2026 Altstadt Lenzburg
Eyes on Main Street, 12 edition
15.5. - 30.8.2026 Vernissage in Wilson, USA
2025
100 Years 100 women
24.10. - 24.11.2025 International Street Photography Festival Mexico
Venice Photo Lab
10. - 24.10.2025 Venice, Italy
Echo des Unbekannten. Vom Umgang mit Tod und Vergänglichkeit
2.10.2025 - 6.4.2026 Kunsthalle Talstrasse, Halle, BRD
Rome Photo Lab
26. - 28.9.2025 Rome, Italy
Solo exhibition at the Pisa Street Photography Festival 2025
20.9. - 21.9.25 Pisa, Italy
Women Street Photographers Paranapiacap Photo Festival
13. - 18.9.2025 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