Harry Schneider is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, sound, and moving image, currently based in Zürich. He holds German, Australian, and Swiss citizenships.

His practice explores the shifting boundary between documentation and transformation, where images are understood not as fixed outcomes but as transitional states shaped through creative processes, perception, and time. Landscape — particularly the evolving terrains of the Swiss Alps—form a recurring point of departure, grounding his work in questions of change, erosion, and attention.

Following an aortic dissection and stroke in 2024, his practice underwent a period of interruption that continues to form his rhythm and sensitivity. What emerged is a more deliberate engagement with duration, fragility, and the thresholds between presence and absence—where pauses, gaps, and shifts in tempo become integral to both method and meaning.

Recent series of works developed in collaboration with painter Sam Melser— Glacial Arteries and Broken Giants— originate from photographic portraits of retreating glaciers in Switzerland. These works unfold through a cyclical process of translation: images are printed onto canvas, reworked through painterly gesture, and rephotographed, creating hybrid forms that move between photography and painting, document and object, image and trace.

Alongside his visual practice, Schneider’s work with the HORA Band at Theater HORA in Zürich extending his creative engagement into sound, improvisation, and collective performance. Within this context, shared attention and embodied practice open parallel dimensions of relation, rhythm, and recovery therapy.

He also collaborates with the myblueplanet foundation, by working with the painter Sam Melser, contributing to projects focused on climate awareness and the cultural dimensions of environmental change.

Across these strands, his work remains rooted in connection—between mediums, landscapes, and people—unfolding as an ongoing negotiation between image, sound, and experience.