Swiss Press Photo: Photographer René Burri receives national lifetime achievement award
Swiss Press Photo is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the Reinhardt von Graffenried Foundation will present press photographer René Burri with the «Swiss Press Photo Lifetime Achievement Award,» worth 20,000 francs, on April 8 at the Bern City Theater.
The prize will be awarded on the occasion of the Swiss Prizes for Local Journalism in Print, Online, Radio, Television and the Swiss Prize for Press Photography. The jury will announce the journalists proposed for nomination in the various categories on March 3, 2011.
René Burri, born April 9, 1933, in Zurich, has devoted his entire life to published photography, according to a Swiss Press Photo release Friday. Burri is the world's best-known Swiss photojournalist of his generation, he said, and has photographed on every continent for Swiss and international print media. Swiss Press Photo is celebrating in a double way, as the day after the award ceremony René Burri celebrates his 78th birthday.
