What did people think when they heard thunder? How did they explain natural phenomena beyond their control?

Rooted in the archaic Alpine landscape of central Switzerland, the work draws on rituals, myths, and a worldview shaped by animistic and magical thinking, in which nature, memory, and belief remain intertwined. The result is a raw visual world that moves between documentary observation and the dreamlike, inviting us to enter intermediate worlds where both the sinister and the unexpected become possible.

In her debut monograph Thunder, published by Vexer Verlag in 2025, the different series are opened up and woven into a new whole. On this website, they can be explored individually, each with its own context, while together they form a body of work developed over more than two decades.

Order:
Nathalie Bissig - Thunder
Publisher: Vexer Verlag
Design: Ann Griffin
ISBN: 978-3-907112-84-7
365 pages, 23 × 17 cm, softcover

Press:
Review Republik
Review Kunstbulletin
Interview WOZ
Yogurt Magazine

Thunder was awarded the bronze medal at the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 25/26.