Five years of meditative color film photography capture Switzerland's landscapes for a unique visual narrative
Constructedivist tension and subtle human traces provide a fresh, contemporary lens on the country
Evocative images evoke the hidden history and curated beauty of the Alpine nation
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Written by Read Teju Cole, known for his intellectual rigor and visual storytelling
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The picturesque vistas and apparent stability of Switzerland have made it an elusive subject for contemporary photography. Over a five-year period (2014 – 2019), Cole found a distinctly new way to look at a country that has been the quintessence of tourist experience for almost two centuries. Fernweh muses on the German word for a longing