Oliver Stegmann was born in 1970 in Switzerland. Since his late teen years, photography has become a key medium to express himself. He has participated in various workshops of well-known photographers such as Mary Ellen Mark, Anders Petersen or Klavdij Sluban. By practicing street and documentary photography on all continents for many years, he developed his own visual language. His photos were presented in many magazines and shown to the public in various exhibitions. In 2021, his long-term project on circuses behind the scenes was published as a photo book with the title CIRCUS NOIR.