Bärbel Högner is a documentary photographer and anthropologist specialising in visual and urban anthropology with a thematic focus on transnational modernist architecture. The findings in this article are based on her field studies, carried out between 2006 and 2013, resulting in two monographs: a photographic documentation of Chandigarh (2010) and her PhD research, an ethnography of the planned city (2017). Her images have been exhibited in various museums and galleries, among them Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt/Main and Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerp. With Susanne Fehlings, she is the founder of the working group on urban anthropology at the German Anthropological Association. She works as a freelance journalist and lecturer and is currently preparing an exhibition on tropical architecture in Brazil.

Jürg Gasser works as photographer, filmmaker and realises exhibitions. In 1968 he created the first ever exhibition on Chandigarh at the Pavillon Le Corbusier in Zürich. For this purpose, he had spent three weeks in the planned city documenting in analogue b/w-photographs the development and the appropriation of the place.