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)
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The award will be presented at the "Swiss Press Award" ceremony on April 28 in Bern, according to a statement on Wednesday. The main winner, the press photographer of the year, will also be chosen then. This prize is endowed with 25,000 Swiss francs.
The winner of the photo category "Topicality" is Fabrice Coffrini from the French news agency AFP with a picture of a glacier. In the "Everyday Life" category, the winner is Karine Bauzin of Le Temps the first prize for an observation of life in beach cabins.
Eleni Kougionis from Swissinfo.ch is the winner of the "Swiss Stories" category with pictures of waste detectives. Karin Hofer's portrait of the writer Peter Bichsel for the New Zurich Newspaper makes the race in the corresponding category.
In the "Sports" category, Dominic Steinmann of the Observer won first prize with its series "The Weirdest World Cup in the World. In the "Foreign Countries" category, Alex Kühni from Tamedia is the winner. He documented the war in Ukraine.
The Swiss Press Awards are presented by the Fondation Reinhard von Graffenried. (SDA)
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The winner in the topicality category is Yves Leresche with a series of images of the women's strike in Lausanne, as the Fondation Reinhardt von Graffenried announced on Friday.
In the Everyday Life category, Adrian Moser won with a series of images on lightning tourism in the Bernese Oberland.
In the Swiss Stories category, Eleni Kougionis is in the running for the "Swiss Press Photographer of the Year" award, with the image series "Gassenarbeit, der Schwarze Peter".
Loris von Siebenthal won in the category Sport with the picture series "Tempête sur le Bol d'Or".
The winner in the foreign category is Christian Bobst with "The Gentle Power of Islam". (SDA)
Images: Swiss Press Photo
The main winner of the "Swiss Press Photo 19", the "Swiss Press Photographer of the Year", will be chosen at the Swiss Press Award ceremony on April 24, 2019 in Bern. The winner of the "Swiss Press Local" and the journalists nominated for the Swiss Press Print, Online, Radio and Video Awards will be announced on Friday, April 12, 2019.
On July 27, 2018, old railroad ties catch fire on the premises of a logistics company at the Rhine port in Basel. A handful of onlookers watch relaxed as a 30-meter-high column of smoke rises into the sky; someone takes a selfie. At the same time, the police have triggered a poison alert and instructed the public to stay indoors and close windows and doors.
The Chläuse of the St. Nicholas Society Zurich not only visit children during Advent, but also criminals. On December 3, 2018, they marched into the Pöschwies correctional facility. Inside, Santa Claus does not read the inmates the riot act individually, although there would be every reason to do so. Rather, he tells a general story, hands out Grittibänze - and is received with an astonishing amount of warmth, but also respect.
The Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist invites together with the nature conservation organization WWF to an art performance in the water on October 7, 2018. Under the title "Toi comme le corail symbiotique", around 500 guests will swim in the newly renovated Hirschengraben indoor swimming pool in Bern in the blaze of color created by video projections. Rist wants to draw attention to the dying of the corals.
On June 22, 2018, Switzerland wins against Serbia at the World Cup in Russia. More talked about than the victory is the double eagle, a symbol on the Albanian flag. The Swiss Granit Xhaka shows it after the 1:1, Xherdan Shaqiri doubles after the 2:1. The gesture is interpreted by the two dual citizens as a provocation of the opponent. The football association FIFA fines them 10,000 Swiss francs each.
In Goudoumaria in the African state of Niger, there is a rehabilitation center for ex-members of Boko Haram. Here, attempts are being made to reintegrate repentant fighters of the Islamist terror sect. Some want to remain anonymous, like Mohamed from Nigeria. Others show their faces, like Ali, who voluntarily entered the center. There is also a women's section there.
"The minister does not appear in any picture, but each one shows his view of things": so says the report on Federal Councilor Alain Berset on the occasion of his presidential year 2018. Head of Communications Nicole Lamon is always nearby. "Alain" congratulates National Council President Jürg Stahl. A federal weibel strides forward. Bodybuilder Fanny Clavien takes a selfie with Berset.
Works in the categories of architecture, editorial, fashion, art, free, reportage and advertising were each awarded 5000 Swiss francs. Nominated were 21 photographers from all over Switzerland.
With total prize money of 35,000 Swiss francs, the Swiss Photo Award is one of the most highly endowed photography prizes in Switzerland. For the past 17 years, it has annually chosen "the best works on the basis of their high level of craftsmanship and artistry," the organizers wrote in their communiqué. The seven winning photographers are from German- and French-speaking Switzerland. They are: Urs Biegler from Zurich (architecture), Christof Schürpf from Lucerne
(Editioral), Cyrill Matter from Zurich (Fashion), Laurence Rasti from Onex (Art), Andrin Winteler from Zurich (Free), Jean Revillard from Les Acacias (Reportage) and Roland Tännler from Zurich (Advertising). All information about the category winners can be found below. The Swiss Photo Award exhibition at the EWZ substation in Selnau will be open from May 14 to 31. On display are the works of all nominated photographers.
Advertising photography / Advertising Week Photo Award
Published work in the field of advertising, such as campaigns, brochures, posters, annual reports, online advertising.
Category winner: Roland Tännler, Zurich, with "Zurich dances
Category: Advertising
Agency: Studio Roth&Maerchy
Client: Zurich Dances Association / Presidential Department of the City of Zurich
Publication: posters, program booklet
Other: Online newsletter and website
Pictures: 5
Top 3: Gianni Pisano, Zurich; Michel Jaussi, Linn-Bözberg (Werbewoche.ch reported)
Shortlist: Fred Merz, Les Acacias; Geri Krischker, Zurich; Daniel Bolliger, Zurich;
Rita Palanikumar, Zurich; Nico Schaerer, Zurich; Stephan Schacher, New York
Jury: Oliver Burger, publisher L'Officiel Switzerland and partner/owner Galerie Burger Stocker; Jörg H. Birker, owner of Birker Creative Consulting
Architecture
Award winner: Urs Bigler, Zurich
To the photos
other top 3: Christian Flierl, Basel; Roman Weyeneth, Basel
Shortlist: Barbara Bühler, Vaduz; Markus Bühler-Rasom, Zurich; Lucia Frey & Bruno Kuster, Lucerne; Andrea Helbling, Zurich; Damian Ineichen, Bonstetten
Editorial
Sunday Newspaper Photo Award
Award winner: Christof Schürpf, Lucerne
To the photos
other top 3: Christian Bobst, Zurich; François Schaer, Geneva;
Shortlist: Markus Bühler-Rasom, Zurich; Lucian Hunziker, Basel; Mirjam Kluka, Zurich; Pascale Weber, Zurich
Fashion
Bolero Fashion Photo Award
Prize winner: Cyrill Matter, Zurich
To the photos
other top 3: Adrian Sonderegger & Jojakim Cortis, Zurich; Karine Welter & Oliver Rust, Zurich
Shortlist: Anoush Abrar, Epalinges; Mirjam Kluka, Zurich; Lauretta Suter, Weiningen; Lauretta Suter, Weiningen; Lauretta Suter, Weiningen
Fine Art
Fine Art Photo Award of the EWZ
Prize winner: Laurence Rasti, Onex
To the photos
other top 3: Julien Heimann, Tramelan; Markus Bertschi, Zurich
Shortlist: Mischa Christen, Lucerne; Roger Frei, Zurich; Mathieu Gafsou, Lausanne; Brigitte Lustenberger, Bern; Andreas Mader, Winterthur; Cyril Porchet, Lausanne
Free
Photo Award of the Association of Photographic Designers VFG
Award winner: Andrin Winteler, Zurich
To the photos
other top 3: Samuel Rauber& Lukas Krenzer, Zurich; Salvatore Vitale, Cadro
Shortlist: Philipp Baer, Zurich; Peter Gartmann, Münchenstein; Eva Lauterlein, Vevey; Christian Reichenbach, Hausen am Albis; ThomasQuintero, Bern; Peter Wey, Baden
Report
Photo award of the Tages-Anzeiger
Laureate: Jean Revillard, Les Acacias
To the photos
other top 3: Beat Schweizer, Bern; Michaël Zumstein, Paris
Shortlist: Marcel Grubenmann, Küsnacht; Mario Heller, Muri; Tom Licht, Zurich; Micha Riechsteiner, Worb; Delphine Schacher, Begnins; Kristian Skeie, Le Mont sur Lausanne
For Le Matin Dimanche, the Swiss Press Photographer of the Year captures the lot of a Syrian refugee family:é The Syrian refugee family Jneid is mourning the loss of their youngest child. Mother Suoha, 22, suffered a stillbirth after being repatriated to Italy by Swiss authorities. The father is making serious accusations against the officials, saying they did not take his wife's poor health seriously.
Until July 7, 2015 are the best Swiss press photos in six categories at the National Museum in Zurich to discover.
For the first time, the prizes in the categories print, online, radio, TV and photography will be offered under the joint name Swiss Press Award. The prize money amounts to 110,000 Swiss francs, according to a statement on Wednesday. Works in the five categories can be submitted online now at Swisspressaward.ch be submitted. The deadline for entries is January 9, 2015. The award ceremony will take place on April 15, 2015 at the Hotel Bellevue Palace in Bern.
Geneva-based Mark Henley receives the prize for his series of images of the Iran nuclear talks in Geneva. The other winners are Samuel Tanner (print), Marcel Gyr (online), Maurine Mercier (radio) and Sophie Hostettler (television). Journalist François Gross was honored with the Reinhardt von Graffenried Lifetime Achievement Award. He follows photographers René Burri (2011) and Robert Frank (2012) and journalist Arnold Hottinger (2013).
The award winners in brief
Print (Jury headed by Peter Rothenbühler)
Samuel Tanner for "Chaosphase auf der A13" published on 25.10.2013 in Ostschweiz am Sonntag.
To the article
Freeway A13 near Au. 15 cars run over a 56-year-old, body parts scattered over 140 meters. The memories of five people involved.
Online (Jury headed by Peter Hogenkamp)
Marcel Gyr for "50 Jahre Seegfrörni" published on 25.1.2013 on NZZ Online.
To the article
Review of the last Seegfrörni (Lake Zurich) in 1963, including photo and film material from the readership. Supplemented with current text and video contributions. Digital compilation in a "Tile Package".
Radio (Jury headed by Patrick Nussbaum)
Maurine Mercier for "Dans la peau des mécanos. Quand trop c'est trop!" broadcast on 24.8.2013 in the program 15 minutes on Radio RTS La 1ère.
About the show
On July 29, two trains collide in Granges-près-Marnard in the canton of Vaud. The accident results in one death and 26 injuries. The train drivers are under pressure. For many, this profession was a childhood dream that is now being shattered. SBB has to convince young people to choose the profession of train driver. This job is very challenging and requires a lot of responsibility. Maurine Mercier spoke to some of the drivers in the cab who admit to sometimes falling asleep at the wheel...
Television (Jury under the direction of Mario Cortesi)
Sophie Hostettler for "Der Jurakonflikt - Serie im Vorfeld zur Abstimmung vom 24. November 2013" broadcast from 11.11.2013 on Telebärn News.
About the show
TeleBärn was on the road in the Jura for a week in the run-up to the Jura vote. The five-part series was produced on a daily basis and was broadcast on the news.
All winning images, as well as the second and third place works can be found onSwisspressphoto.ch.
The yearbook featuring the best Swiss press photos is published by Benteli Verlag and is available in bookstores. The national touring exhibition "Swiss Press Photo 14" begins on April 30 at the National Museum in Zurich before moving on to Locarno, Bern and Prangins. The iPhone app is available for free in the App Store.
Each of the six winners was presented with the diamond for their outstanding work and the sum of 20,000 Swiss francs. The Swiss Press Photo category winners each received 2,000 Swiss francs. The publisher-independent Fondation Reinhardt von Graffenried was founded by Franziska and Erwin Reinhardt-Scherz together with Charles von Graffenried - who died two years ago in July - with the aim of promoting Swiss journalism. 2014 marks the 28th year of the Swiss Prize for Local Journalism and the 23rd for Swiss Press Photo.
]]>Gilliéron was honored with the highest award in Swiss press photography for the second time after 2005. The main prize is endowed with 20,000 Swiss francs. The series of the Keystone photographer discreetly documents the mourning after the serious bus accident in Valais. The photographer described the scene in front of the tunnel entrance after the bus accident as very impressive. "I didn't know what had happened," Gilliéron said Thursday during the media tour. But the five or six helicopters had made him suspect something bad, he said.
The photographer took the picture from a bridge about 200 meters from the tunnel entrance. His second picture, awarded in the "topicality" category, shows a crying girl with a flower in her hand. Gilliéron photographed it as the victims' relatives waited to board the bus to travel to the accident site. The picture was widely publicized in the international press.
Gilliéron is a real press photographer, Michael von Graffenried told the media. "He is ready for action around the clock." The winning picture is proof of that, he said. Von Graffenried is a photographer himself. He had launched "Swiss Press Photo" 23 years ago.
"Photographers are being cut away"
Marco Castellaneta from the National Museum emphasized how important press photography is - "today, when photographers are being cut everywhere." He added that the exhibition was also intended to show what important work photographers were doing. For the exhibition at the National Museum, 173 photographers submitted a total of 2,825 images in six categories. An international jury selected the winners. The Swiss Prize for Press Photography is funded by the Fondation Reinhardt von Graffenried. The exhibition, curated by Ricabeth Steiger, displays the photos in large-format light boxes. "With this display, we are very close to the media," von Graffenried said. Today, he said, those images are viewed on iPads or other tablets, where they also glow brightly and in color. "These
Presentation is almost avant-garde."
Roger Federer's fight against the wasp
The winning image in the "Sports" category is a great snapshot. Roger Federer is taking cover from a wasp. In the shot taken by Reuters photographer Michael Buholzer, you can see the tennis star fending off the small insect with his hand and racket.
In the "Portrait" category, the winner was Daniel Tischler, a photographer who took quirky photos of quirky people. They show unconventional lone wolves in their own, equally quirky four walls.
In the "Art" category, winner Valérie Chétel traced the dreary charm of an abandoned dance studio for the Bund.
In the "Everyday Life and Environment" category, the first prize went to Steeve Iuncker of the Tribune de Genève newspaper in French-speaking Switzerland for a series on drunken youths in the Parc des Bastions - and the paramedics standing by at the park entrance.
Dominic Nahr, a young Swiss photographer who has just been accepted by the renowned international photo agency Magnum, won in the "Foreign Countries" category with a report from Sudan. The category winners each receive 2,000 Swiss francs. (Luzia Schmid/SDA)
All winning images, as well as the second and third place works can be found on Swisspressphoto.ch
Outstanding works by outstanding journalists who impressively demonstrated in their medium that local journalism is the supreme discipline of journalistic creation were honored, according to a statement. The award winners are Sabine Kuster (print), Stefan Kohler (radio), Matthias Achermann (TV) and Christian Lutz (Swiss Press Photo). No prize was awarded in the online category. Photographer René Burri was honored with the Swiss Press Photo Lifetime Achievement Award for his life's work.
The 20th anniversary of the Swiss Press Photo Award was celebrated. For the first time, a photo submitted in the "Abroad" category won. The winning image belongs to a photo reportage from Nigeria by Christian Lutz. The best entries from 2010 were used to create the Swiss Press Photo yearbook, which documents the work of Swiss press photographers in an impressive way.
According to the press release, the event culminated with the presentation of the first-ever "Swiss Press Photo Lifetime Achievement Award" to Swiss photographer René Burri. He is the world's best-known Swiss photojournalist of his generation and has photographed on every continent for Swiss and international print media.
The award-winning works at a glance:
The Swiss Prize for Local Journalism Print
The prize in the Print category goes to an "extremely ambitious reportage project" (jury) that Sabine Kuster realized for the Aargauer Zeitung. On the occasion of the European Year of Poverty, she visited the same family five times within one year and shows different facets of their lives. The result is "sensual, vivid and above all: never larmoyant", is how the jury justifies its choice.
The Swiss Prize for Local Journalism Radio
Stefan Kohler realized a report about the Örgeli family Äschbacher for the Regionaljournal on DRS 1. Father and son received the Langenthal Culture Prize, each for their own work. The contribution shows how it came to a rift in the family and why both nevertheless developed in a similar direction. "A piece of poetry, wonderfully told with successful dramaturgy through music," was the jury's verdict.
The Swiss Prize for Local Journalism TV
For his report on the shooting festival in Aarau on Tele M1, Matthias Achermann used a hidden camera. With it, he documented serious safety deficiencies by handling weapons and ammunition. In the jury's opinion, he thus uncovered "astonishing facts on a highly topical, relevant subject".
The Swiss Prize for Local Journalism online
The expectation, the hope for surprising, multimedia and interactive journalistic works was thwarted by reality for the time being. The submissions for the online prize in local journalism show a different picture and ultimately led the jury not to make a nomination, as online jury president Jodok Kobelt explained at the award ceremony. This year's non-awarding of the prize should be an invitation to all journalists, publishers, but also readers and web surfers to engage more actively with the versatile forms of expression of the still young journalistic environment.
Swiss Press Photo of the Year 2011
For the first time in the twenty-year history of Swiss Press Photo, the jury has chosen a picture taken abroad as Press Photo of the Year. Christian Lutz took the picture for a reportage from Nigeria that throws all stereotypes overboard. He shows the misery of the poor next to the ease with which the powerful celebrate the profits from the oil business.
Swiss Press Photo Lifetime Achievement Award
René Burri, born in Zurich on April 9, 1933, has devoted his entire life to published photography. He is the world's best-known Swiss photojournalist of his generation and has photographed on every continent for Swiss and international print media. Swiss Press Photo is celebrating in two ways: The day after the award ceremony, René Burri celebrates his 78th birthday. The most famous photographs will be presented in the Swiss Press Photo yearbook.
Other award winners by category:
Actuality: Samuel Golay, breakthrough in the Gotthard Base Tunnel on October 15, 2010
Everyday life and environment: Helmut Wachter, the streetwalker at Sihlquai in Zurich
Portrait: Jean Patrick Di Silvestro, agency operator Dunja Stanic and Robin Girod
Sports: Marcel Grubenmann, Roger Federer visits an elementary school in Ethiopia that his foundation supports.
Art and culture: Fabian Unternährer, Series ≪Window Place & Secluded≫
Abroad: Christian Lutz, (Swiss Press Photographer of the year)
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.