Issue 01 · Stillness — Graubünden · 2026

Engadin Light

A commission about time, shot in a valley where light is the only clock.

Photographs by Mara Voss

The ridge at 06:40. The village below still in night.Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, L · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Larches holding the first hour.Photo: Björn S... · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The hotel corridor, built 1896, lit once a day for nine minutes.Photo: w_lemay · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Last light leaving the valley the way it came.Photo: Thomas Fabian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The photographer

Mara Voss

Mara's subject is weather — the sea in winter, mountains in cloud. She prints everything by hand and distrusts any image that looks finished on the first pass.

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