Joël Hunn is an editorial photographer working primarily in portraiture, on assignment for Swiss and international publications. The most interesting moment in any portrait is the quarter-second after the subject thinks the picture has been made — the register drops, the performance ends, and something closer to the person shows up.

I try to work for that quarter-second. Natural light if there is any; a small kit; as little ceremony as the brief will allow. The picture is usually made in the last three minutes of a thirty-minute slot — which is to say it is made in all the thirty minutes, but only shows up at the end.

Trained in Zürich; working as a photographer since 2014. Studio in Zürich; further afield when the story asks for it. Beyond editorial I keep a personal archive of quieter pictures — landscapes, interiors, people I know.