Ingenious Encounters

Nobel Laureates in Portraits-for this project, the young German photographer Peter Badge has been traveling around the world since 2000. More than 400 encounters have provided him with incomparable insight into the world of those who "have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind"-as Alfred Nobel described it in his last will and testament. This book is, however, much more than a mere "making of" of a long-term photographic project.

Ingenious Encounters reflects on the personalities, achievements, and lives of the laureates from a unique perspective which is both unusual and fascinating. Peter Badge's impressive accounts of his experiences have been compiled and penned by Sandra Zarrinbal to create a captivating book that defies categorization: as authentic as a diary, as informative as a work of popular science, as thrilling as an adventure documentary, as touching as a novel of personal development, as amusing as a celebrity biography, and as poetic as Nobel himself preferred to approach the world.

"In this one-of-a-kind collection, Peter Badge shows us the wonderful gifts that make Nobel Laureates unique-and how they help us connect our interesting differences to our common humanity." President Bill Clinton