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Half and half (Daily Life 2021, by Niels Ackermann) - Swiss Press Award

Sandrine: "Je ne suis pas certaine d'arriver à définir le métissage. On m'a toujours dit que j'étais métis, mais j'ai dû aller voir dans un dictionnaire à quoi ça correspondait. Quand j'étais adolescente, une amie de ma soeur avait demandé si j'étais albinos. Ca m'avait fait rire. C'était plus de la méconnaissance qu'autre chose."
Niels Ackermann
Sandrine: "Je ne suis pas certaine d'arriver à définir le métissage. On m'a toujours dit que j'étais métis, mais j'ai dû aller voir dans un dictionnaire à quoi ça correspondait. Quand j'étais adolescente, une amie de ma soeur avait demandé si j'étais albinos. Ca m'avait fait rire. C'était plus de la méconnaissance qu'autre chose."
Photo / Daily Life
2021

Half and half

Niels Ackermann

For issue 44 of its magazine Tangram, the Federal Commission Against Racism asked me to illustrate the issue of racism in Switzerland today. I chose to address the question through a series of portraits and interviews with mixed-race people. It's a way to confront the reader with our own reflexes for reading the world around us through racialized means so we can better question them.

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Half and half

Revue Tangram

Photo / Daily Life
2021

Niels Ackermann

For issue 44 of its magazine Tangram, the Federal Commission Against Racism asked me to illustrate the issue of racism in Switzerland today. I chose to address the question through a series of portraits and interviews with mixed-race people. It's a way to confront the reader with our own reflexes for reading the world around us through racialized means so we can better question them.

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Niels Ackermann / Swiss Press Award

Niels Ackermann

Photographe, Genève, 1987

Niels has worked as a photojournalist for the Swiss and international press since 2007. Working on Ukraine since 2009, he has published three books dedicated to the country. These include the post-Chernobyl youth (2016), the management of the Soviet legacy (2017), and the war unleashed by Russia (2021). The perpetual quest for nuance is a cardinal point of his work. An idea that the world is too complex to be summed up in binary oppositions between good and evil, between right and wrong, and that it is often better to ask new questions than to provide answers yourself. After focusing on Ukraine for more than 13 years, Niels is now interested in the Swiss political system. In addition to photography, Niels holds a degree in political science from the University of Geneva. He now lives in Geneva, where he co-founded the photography collective Lundi13.

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