René Uhlmann, photographer/graphic artist, was born 1949 in Zurich.Already in the Sixties, he captured on film the legendary Swiss Beatband Trash Can', with future Nasal Boys' frontman Lemmi.As of 1972 back home from America he created first cartoons,composed with his father's old 8 mm camera, and experimental collagesthat later were also animated. 1976 to 1980 saw the addition of many Zurich Punk- and Wave-Scene shoots and (long before MTV) fast-paced music-animation films. Uhlmann works and lives with his partner Karin Caprez in Zurich.