Parliament Square, Bern, Switzerland, Friday, May 27, 2005, 2pm
Over a period of three years, Geneva photographer Christian Lutz was at the side of Swiss interior minister Pascal Couchepin at diplomatic receptions, political meetings, and during trips around the country and abroad. The photographs show a different side of power. According to Lars Müller, the publisher of "Protokoll", Lutz "isolates the clichés that rule the world and records the unsaid and unobserved with his camera". In the photographer's words: "I always felt in a closed diplomatic bubble, crossing different cultural media but meeting characters with identical behaviour".
Heading to Switzerland, Tel Aviv airport, Israel, Sunday, September 18, 2005, 3:30pm
Parliament, Bern, Switzerland, Friday, May 27, 2005, 4pm
Bernerhof, Bern, Switzerland, Friday, May 27, 8pm
Heading to Vigo, Spain from Sion, Switzerland, Sunday, November 7, 2004, 10:15am
On the way to the United Nations headquarters in New York, United States, Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 10am
Eur district, Rome, Italy, Thursday, October 20, 2005, 4:45pm
Maronite monastery, Jerusalem, Israel, Friday, September 16, 2005, 2pm
Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China, Saturday, October 16, 2004, 12pm
Pazo de Raxoi, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Friday, November 5, 2004, 1:30pm
Behind the scenes of power by photographer Christian Lutz.
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