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Open in the appThe exhibition "Traces of Escape" by Klaus Petrus casts an unusual look at migration, full of nuance, edges and angles. It challenges our rigid perceptions of refugees. Migration is not only the major issue of our time, but also one that threatens to divide society into for and… The exhibition "Traces of Escape" by Klaus Petrus casts an unusual look at migration, full of nuance, edges and angles. It challenges our rigid perceptions of refugees. Migration is not only the major issue of our time, but also one that threatens to divide society into for and against – there is hardly room for in-betweens. For seven years, photojournalist Klaus Petrus has documented escape routes across the Balkans into EU countries and Switzerland. On these journeys, he lives with migrants in barracks, accompanies families across borders, travels with smugglers, witnesses hardship and forges friendships. The exhibition "Traces of Escape" casts an unusual look at migration, full of nuance, edges and angles. It challenges our rigid perceptions of refugees. About Klaus Petrus Until 2012, Klaus Petrus was a professor of philosophy at the University of Bern. Since then he has worked as a photojournalist and reporter and is co-editor of the street magazine Surprise. He reports on migration, poverty, exclusion and wars from Switzerland, the Balkans, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. His photographs and texts appear in national and international media and have been awarded numerous times. In 2023, his book "Am Rand" (Christoph Merian Verlag) was published with reports and portraits of people at the margins of our society, and in 2025 his long-term project on migration "Traces of Escape" (Aswad Verlag). www.klauspetrus.ch