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The Swiss National Museum in Prangins (VD) returns to 2023 in images. From Friday, it presents the work of the Swiss Press and World Press Photo winners. The two exhibitions bring together nearly 300 images, from the Credit Suisse crash to the landslide in Brienz (GR).
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November 14, 2024 – 3:19 pm
(Keystone-ATS) The Swiss Press Photo 24 exhibition displays some 150 prints selected by the Reinhardt von Graffenried Foundation and published in 2023 in Swiss media. Among them, photos by NZZ Photographer of the Year Dominic Nahr taken in several countries in conflict.
For the rest, forest fires in Bitsch in Valais, chronicle of a Lausanne campsite, evocation of the profession of sexual assistant for people with disabilities or even après-ski: Swiss press photos reflect a “kaleidoscopic country, contrasting, inventive,” emphasize the organizers.
The World Press Photo 2024 exhibition reveals nearly 140 images from the four corners of the world. They were chosen by an independent organization based in Amsterdam since 1955. In particular the winning photo of Mohamed Salem, a Palestinian woman holding the body of her niece.
Photographers also tracked migrants en route to the United States at the risk of their lives, immortalized the first North American climate refugees and the return home of Ethiopian soldiers. The bombings in Gaza, the Afghan exiles, the earthquake in Turkey, the revolution in Myanmar, the rising waters in the Fiji Islands, the drought in the Amazon basin in Brazil have also focused the attention of reporters.
Each press photo highlights a truth in the midst of a thousand truths and a few lies, comment the organizers. Swiss Press Photo 24 and World Press Photo 2024 deploy these “instant truths”, like so many freeze frames to see the world.
The exhibition is open until May 24 for the international part and until February 2 for the Swiss part.
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