The photographic approach of Nicolas Savary and Tilo Steireif focuses on the representation of the politician as a figure in the “militia” political system in Switzerland. This investigation began in 2005, focusing on the assemblies of political party delegates, these meetings which outline the main thematic and ideological axes of the parties for the months to come. Savary and Steireif endeavored to show the heterogeneity of the meeting places, and the willingness of each party to make these moments public. Secondly, under the title of Kampagne, they looked at the campaign for the federal elections of October 2007, focusing on the portraits of politicians, on electoral posters, with the Swiss landscape in all its banality as a background. Likewise, a series presents the figure of the politician enthroned upon his accession to power. Newly elected politicians pose for press agencies and independent or official photographers in the Federal Palace – these images serving, throughout the political mandate, as a support for the visual communication of parliamentarians. The photographs highlight the very solemn moment of the media induction through images, at the time of the opening of the first session after the elections. The authors observed how elected officials are visually “dressed” as a personality who claims to be public. Should we show the simplicity of the citizen or put ourselves on stage for eternity? The photographed politician hesitates between a more solemn representation and the one that preceded his promotion, where he more readily took the “all-purpose” and humble pose of the people’s elected official. Finally, Savary and Steireif looked at the very question of the exhibition system, and the view that the population is invited to have on a democratic system which claims to be both immediately accessible and transparent. In 2006, an extraordinary parliamentary session, and especially extramural, was held in the village of Flims, in the middle of the grandiose landscape of the Alps. Under the title of Streichelzoo, or Petting Zoo, the authors describe the games of influence and negotiation of parliamentarians, within a stage setting, for the attention of the population who have come to witness the progress of democracy in vivo.