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Giovanni Vassalli, collector of old bicycles (People 2015, by Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi) - Swiss Press Award

Giovanni Vassalli, collector of old bicycles
Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi
Giovanni Vassalli, collector of old bicycles
Winner
Photo / People
2015

Giovanni Vassalli, collector of old bicycles

Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi

His face tells stories – and so does his collection: Of the lives of the umbrella maker, the fishmonger, the postman. Their old bicycles now all belong to Giovanni Vassalli, aged 80. From May to July 2014, the former carpenter and teacher was able to exhibit about 80 bikes in Riva San Vitale in southern Ticino. He says: “The past has always been my passion.”

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Giovanni Vassalli, collector of old bicycles

Ticinosette

Winner
Photo / People
2015

Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi

His face tells stories – and so does his collection: Of the lives of the umbrella maker, the fishmonger, the postman. Their old bicycles now all belong to Giovanni Vassalli, aged 80. From May to July 2014, the former carpenter and teacher was able to exhibit about 80 bikes in Riva San Vitale in southern Ticino. He says: “The past has always been my passion.”

Interview with Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi

Swiss Press Photo 2015 — Flavia Leuenberger — Vincitore Ritratti

Interview with Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi

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Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi / Swiss Press Award

Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi

fotografa, Arogno, 1985

Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi, born in 1985, attended the CSIA arts school in Lugano, Switzerland, where she graduated in 2004 with a degree in graphic design. After a few years of experience in the field of photography, in 2010 she set up her own freelance agency offering both graphic design and photographic services, flanking her commercial activity with personal works: in 2013 she started the project “Moghegno-Monterey” dedicated to swissitalian emigrants, where in six trips she portrayed different families in the United States and Australia, this project (along with “swiss rocks”) was exhibited in October 2022 at the Swiss consulate in San Francisco. In 2015 she won the first prize at the Swiss Press Photo Award in the portraits category. In 2023 she won the second prize at the Swiss Press Photo Award in the portraits category.

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