Suva media prize for female photographers from French-speaking Switzerland 

The 13th Suva Media Prize goes to the two photographers Véronique Botteron and Dorothée Thébert. They were awarded the prize on Thursday for their joint work "Cancer, a photographer's diary". The photographic work appeared in the magazine Femina on October 2, 2005 and is a poignant testimony to the fight against breast cancer, according to a Suva press release. In the award-winning work, Dorothée Thébert captured the stages of her colleague Véronique Botteron's breast cancer with her camera. In a creative collaboration, the two succeeded in visualizing a twelve-month battle against the disease in a gripping way, according to the communiqué, and Suva is also awarding two recognition prizes. One of these goes to David Racana for his radio report "Risk behavior of young people in the face of AIDS", which was broadcast on the first program of French-speaking Swiss radio. Another prize goes to Marylou Rey for her article "Cannabis, temptation on the school playground" published in the magazine Femina.
The Suva Media Prize was established in 1994. It honors French-language work that is related to the prevention of accidents and health problems and has been published in the Swiss media. This year, 37 creative people submitted 59 works for the award, which is endowed with CHF 7,000.