Swiss Army


To leave for the army, believing to be able to testify of a strong human experience and to realize that it is a mortal bore.
Always aware of being a student forced into a war school disguised as a national folklore camp.

This series won the 1st prize of the young talents VFG, and was selected for the Swiss Photo Awards in 2002, for then getting exhibited and published internationally, and starting Reto Albertalli's professional career.

A massive archive of unlikely negatives, still waits to get old enough to become more than a personal diary. To be published one day.