Last Exit to Ohio (World 2017, by Lea Koch) - Swiss Press Award
!["They are trapped, frightened, and don't know what will happen next."](https://swiss-press-award.storage.googleapis.com/submissions/2016/10053/28247-10053-26a468-ededb15b-85ca1e-tiny.webp ""They are trapped, frightened, and don't know what will happen next."")
Lea Koch
"They are trapped, frightened, and don't know what will happen next."
Tagesanzeiger.ch, Baslerzeitung.ch, Bund.ch
Photo / World
2017
Lea Koch
Where America's industrial engine once ran, heroin, violence, and a lack of future now reign. In our long-form story, photographer Matt Eich narrates his brutally poetic and poetically brutal images of the life of a resigned white underclass. Addiction and hopelessness—but also moments of happiness and humor—uncover themselves in this lost place.
