The Bunker

“The Bunker” is a photographic series developed over several years throughout Switzerland. It forms part of a broader exploration of how a territory, in seeking to reassure, can also enclose.

The title — The Bunker — works here as a metaphor: for Swiss neutrality, for its image of stability and refuge, but also for withdrawal, isolation, and the invisible boundary between inside and out.

This series is also tied to my personal history. I spent part of my childhood in Switzerland, and these images reflect a layered memory — one made of vast landscapes and a kind of interior silence. Through each photograph, I explore the link between protection and distance, between outward peace and underlying tension.

Bunkers, scattered across the Swiss landscape, serve as the core symbol. These concrete structures, embedded in mountainsides or on the edges of villages, are both visible and forgotten. They embody an ambivalence: ensuring safety while underscoring the possibility of threat. They speak as much of strength as of fear.

Through mountains, cities, forests, and lakes, I’ve tried to capture the hidden layer of a country often perceived as smooth and immaculate. The images shift between open landscapes and sealed enclosures, between nature and construction, between soft light and sharp lines.

The Bunker is not a documentary on Switzerland, but a study of the mental space it creates — a controlled, framed territory that comforts, yet also isolates.

A fiction of peace in a saturated world.