Roberto Raineri-Seith (7.8.1964) lives in Düsseldorf and southern Switzerland. Honorary member and former president (2003-2011) of the Swiss Professional Photographers and Photo Designers Association SBF, until 2011 he was also a member of the directive boards of the Büro für Fotografiegeschichte Bern and the swiss photo design education www.fotodesign.ch. Several solo and group exhibitions with acquisitions by various public and private collections. "1. Prize of Photography 1994" of the Swiss Italian Fine Arts Society STBA. Since the first '80s he also acts as an experimental electronic music composer and from 1987 until 1991 he was art director of the contemporary music series "L'Altro Suono". He also worked as a professional editor and writer and as an event and exhibition organiser in the artistic and cultural field. As a freelance journalist he has collaborated with various daily papers and periodicals of Italian Switzerland and published the books "Il luogo che non c'e'" (Casagrande, 1997) and "Ticino graffiti" (Pedrazzini, 1992). After 2011 he progressively lost interest in photography and in 2015 he discontinued his work in this field. Now his core activity relates almost exclusively to electronic music and field recording with the project controlvoltage.org. The photographic archive works are represented by ArteF Fine Art Photography Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
