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BUNKER DOWN With a long history of political neutrality and an army knife that features (among its more deadly devices) a small nail file and dedicated fish scaler, Switzerland’s military probably doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Case in point: did you know Switzerland’s mountain valleys are littered with more than 10,000 heavily fortified and occasionally well-camouflaged bunkers? Photographer Leo Fabrizio knows all too well. He spent four years hiking the country’s Alps and cataloguing its defences for his photo series, Bunkers. “These bunkers tell a lot about our identity,” Fabrizio says. “Switzerland is an island. It’s surrounded by mountains rather than seas, but the impact on our mentality is the same. We protect our country with ‘coastal’ defences. We dig into our sacred mountains to protect ourselves.” When you think about it, the…

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Smith Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2019

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