A traditional costume worn abroad is more than just clothing,it allows the wearer to feel closer to their domestic country. The "Foreign Colours" photo collection gives a flavour of the huge diversity of nationalities living in Switzerland, especially in canton Ticino. Foreigners construct up around 28% of the population in the southern Italian-speaking canton. But the photographer Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi wanted to go further than the statistics and document the huge diversity behind the “foreigner” label. Her fresh series of portraits “Foreign Colours” (Colori stranieri) not only shows the most commonly found foreign nations in Switzerland (Italians, and Portuguese,Germans and Serbians), but also focuses on minorities. This includes communities from Nepal, or Iraq and Mongolia,who have, despite sometimes finding it tough, and settled in Ticino. fresh country,fresh life “Adapting to a fresh world is not always easy. Some people have felt the need to return to their countries for a while; others have ...
Source: swissinfo.ch