Concert hall at LAC Lugano, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown series, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer

ISS, Lugano, Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

ISS Switzerland commissioned reportage photography during the Covid-19 shutdown, a moment when the facilities they manage had gone quiet. The assignment was to document that absence and the people who kept working through it. We photographed facility managers in empty stadiums, concert halls and lecture halls across Switzerland. Locations included the Letzigrund in Zurich, the LAC in Lugano, Swisscom’s offices, and the St. Jakob-Park in Basel. The subject was not the emptiness itself, but the work that continued inside it.

The venues had closed, which made access easy and the light difficult: dark halls, working lights only, a few minutes in each location. Our ISS reportage photography shows the people at their posts, framed small against rooms built for thousands.

A separate assignment for ISS, made under different conditions: employer branding photography at three locations across Switzerland.

Part of our Corporate & Portrait work.

Portrait of a female employee at LAC Lugano, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
Letzigrund stadium, Zurich, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown series, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
Female employee portrait at Letzigrund, Zurich, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
Courtyard of the Swisscom offices, Zurich, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
Employee portrait at the Swisscom offices, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown series, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
Empty lecture hall at ETH Zurich, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown series, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
Employee portrait at ETH Zurich, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown series, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
St. Jakob-Park stadium, Basel, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown series, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
Employee portrait at St. Jakob-Park, Basel, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
ETH Zurich building, ISS Switzerland, Covid-19 shutdown series, corporate reportage by Scanderbeg Sauer
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