Background
Claire Schwob was born on February 12, 1948, in La Chaux-de-fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Main building of the Folkwang University in Essen-Werden
Claire Schwob was born on February 12, 1948, in La Chaux-de-fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Claire Schwob studied photography in Fribourg (1964) and Lausanne (1965), Switzerland, then in Essen, Germany, at the Folkwang University of the Arts for two years. She also trained at an advertising and fashion studio in Hamburg, Germany.
A freelance photographer since 1972, Claire Schwob worked for the agency Report in London and the agency Saftra in Stockholm in 1970. Primarily a photographic essayist, she also does portraits and landscapes.
Claire Schwob has been a member of the Arts Centre in London since 1972.