FORSTER Daniel

Nationality

Switzerland Switzerland

Biography

I photographed my sailing friends on Lake Murten in Switzerland during my apprenticeship in a photo studio in Bern. Being a sailor myself I knew where to position myself to get the right angle. My first assignment was Kiel Week 1971. That is where they held the Olympic Sailing event in 1972, my first of 12 Olympic Games. 1977 I went to Newport, Rhode Island for my first of 13 America's Cups. When TIME magazine sent me for five month to Perth, Australia. in 1987 to cover the America's Cup, they put my photograph of the winner, Dennis Conner, on the cover ! I am still documenting regattas from Hong Kong to San Francisco to Newport, Rhode Island, for Rolex or the New York Yacht Club, 51 years after I started on a little lake in Switzerland.
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