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Tumultuous times

When Zurich was "like a warzone".

A growing frustration among youth throughout the 1970s at a lack of public funding and work space for a new generation of musicians, actors and artists eventually led to months of riots and clashes with police in Zurich’s normally orderly streets. Photographer Olivia Heussler was a witness.

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