Published by Editions Noir sur Blanc, Lignes de crêtes is a collective work. It offers twenty hiking itineraries across Switzerland, punctuated by selected literary texts - ancient or contemporary, famous or unpublished - by Swiss and international authors who have written about the mountains.
Olga Cafiero's photographs, created especially for this book, accompany the routes, providing a visual counterpoint to the words. Far from classic illustration, her images "electrify the postcard", exploring the tensions between visible and invisible, between sensitive perception and geological reality.
Using colour filters and superimpositions, she reveals multiple layers of the landscape: shapes, materials, light and alterations. The photographs offer both a plastic and poetic reading of the mountain - silent, powerful, fragile - echoing the texts and geomorphological analyses.
The literary extracts were selected by Florence Gaillard, Daniel Maggetti and Stéphane Pétermann. The scientific commentaries are by Jonathan Bussard and Emmanuel Reynard.
Lignes de crêtes is a journey through several voices - those of writers, geographers and photographers - offering new interpretations of our landscapes.
