Created: 2013
Technique: Photography
Lago di Lei
After fifty years of successful electricity production the artificial lake Lago di Lei in the canton of Grison, Switzerland was completely drained for maintenance work. Just before the first snow started covering the landscape and borders disappeared, Simon Zangger photographed the surreal situation in 1930 meters above sea level. On the clay bottom of the lake stone ruins and remains of a small town came to light. The village had to make way for the fifth-largest Swiss dam at the time of construction. The horizontal line drawn at the center of the photograph divides the scenery and creates a visual balance.