Passers-by near the Migros supermarket in Bern's Lorrainestrasse, 2004 (Edouard Rieben).
Sylvie S works in a Bern retirement home run by the Salvation Army, 2004 (Edouard Rieben).
After work in one of Bern's educational centres for the unemployed, 2004 (Edouard Rieben).
Football fans at the Café Courses in Lausanne try their hand at the table version during half time in one of the Euro 2004 matches (Pierre Antoine Grisoni).
Completing the written test to obtain a driver's licence in Lausanne, 2004 (Pierre-Antoine Grisoni).
Daniel, a rubbish collector, starts the day in Maupas, 2004 (Pierre Antoine Grisoni).
"Magic's Bar Caffè" on Lugano's Piazza Molino Nuovo, which is used as parking lot, 2004 (Ursula Markus).
Lugano's Muslim cemetery opened two years ago on the edge of the main cemetery, 2004 (Ursula Markus).
Gobigan tries to make a new friend in the Kindergarten on Lugano's Via Ferri, 2004 (Ursula Markus).
Just who are the Swiss?
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Faces of Switzerland is the work of a team of photographers, who captured the cultural diversity of three of the country’s urban centres: Ursula Markus went to Molino Nuovo in Lugano, Edouard Rieben rubbed shoulders in Bern’s Lorraine and Pierre Antoine Grisoni spent his time in the Maupas in Lausanne.
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