Series on the demise of CS honored at Swiss photography awards
From the collapse of Credit Suisse to hobby horse races: The images featured in the 2024 «Swiss Press Photo» Awards cover a wide range of topics. Three photographers were honored in each of the six categories.
Mark Henley (Le Temps) won first prize in the "Topicality" category for a black-and-white series of images on the demise of Credit Suisse. The second prize in this category went to Reuters photographer Denis Balibouse for photos of a forest fire in Bitsch VS, while the third prize went to Michael Buholzer of the Keystone-SDA news agency for his series on the rockfall in Brienz GR.
The winner of the Sport category is Jonathan Labusch (Sunday newspaper). He photographed the sport "Hobby Horsing", a kind of obstacle course with hobby horses. Second place went to Pascal Mora (Swiss Illustrated), the third Gian Ehrenzeller from Keystone-SDA for a photo series on the death of cyclist Gino Mäder.
In the everyday life category, Guillaume Perret (Arcinfo) with pictures of residents of the campsite on the outskirts of Lausanne. Second place went to Karin Bauzin (L'Illustré) and the third Boris Mueller (Observer).
Matthieu Zellweger won in the Swiss Stories category with a series of pictures about sex assistants who are used by people with disabilities. Second place went to Joël Hunn (Observer), third place went to Annick Ramp (New Zurich Newspaper).
Three prizes for one photographer
The winner in the foreign category was Dominic Nahr (New Zurich Newspaper) with his documentary about the earthquake in Morocco. Nahr also won second prize in the foreign category. The third prize in the category went to Mario Heller (Switzerland at the weekend).
In addition to his two prizes in the foreign category, Nahr also took first place in the portrait category with pictures of ten men and women from Ukraine. Second place in the portrait category went to Nik Egger (Bieler Tagblatt), the third to Le-Temps-Photographer Nicolas Brodard.
The prize will be presented at the Swiss Press Award ceremony on April 26 in Bern. This is also when the main winner, the press photographer of the year, will be chosen. This prize is endowed with CHF 25,000. (SDA)
