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Closing Time (18 images)

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An examination of borrowed spaces, the high alpine passes of Uri, in the days before they are abandoned to themselves, closed for a seven month winter.


  • Damaged Swiss flag flying close to the Susten Pass(2259m), connecting Uri and Bern, shortly before it closed for a seven month winter.

  • Furka Blick Hotel dating from 1893 close to the summit of the Furka Pass (2431m) connecting Uri and Valais. For the five months of the year that the pass is open, a cafe is open in the building. Photographed shortly before the road closed for a seven month winter.

  • Steinsee which runs off from the Stein glacier, seen from close to the summit of the Susten Pass (2259m), connecting Uri and Bern, shortly before it closed for a seven month winter, during live firing exercises by the Swiss army.

  • Fast food trailer left in the snow by the summit of the Furka Pass (2431m) connecting Uri and Valais, a few days before it finally closed for a seven month winter.

  • Train staff leaving the railway station at the top of the Oberalp Pass (2044m), connecting Uri with Graubüden, in the last days before the road to the pass closes for a seven month winter. The rail line remains open.

  • Crucifix on the approach to the Oberalp Pass connecting Uri Canton to Graubunden, shortly before the road's closure for the next seven months.

  • Railway station on the Oberalp Pass (2044m),. While the road closes for seven months of the year, the railway remains in use, between Uri and Graubunden

  • Furka Pass (2431m) connecting Uri Canton and Valais Canton. Wood is used to show the trace of the route when it is covered with snow. The pass is closed for seven months of the year. Photographed shortly before the closure.


  • Stein glacier, above the Susten pass (2259m), photpgrpahed shortly before the pass closed for a seven month winter.

  • Mountain slopes draped in cloud on the approach to the Oberalp Pass (2044m), between Uri and Graubunden, shortly before it closed for a seven month winter.





  • Tunnel close to the summit of the Susten Pass (2259m), connecting Uri and Bern, shortly before it closed for a seven month winter.

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