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Young people of the valley (People 2016, by Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi) - Swiss Press Award

Elisa and Micha
Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi
Elisa and Micha
Photo / People
2016

Young people of the valley

Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi

Despite the depopulation of the valleys, some people feel the need to escape the frenetic pace of city life; while others, however, don't want to leave the area where they were born and raised. Many of them are young, and various reasons have driven them to live in the suburbs. Here's a couple who lived in... the Muggio Valley in 2015.

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Young people of the valley

Annuario Chiasso e Mendrisiotto

Photo / People
2016

Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi

Despite the depopulation of the valleys, some people feel the need to escape the frenetic pace of city life; while others, however, don't want to leave the area where they were born and raised. Many of them are young, and various reasons have driven them to live in the suburbs. Here's a couple who lived in... the Muggio Valley in 2015.

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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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