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Battle cry (Daily Life 2017, by Kostas Maros) - Swiss Press Award

Water fight on the Dreirosenbrücke bridge in Basel, on August 13, 2016
Kostas Maros
Water fight on the Dreirosenbrücke bridge in Basel, on August 13, 2016
Photo / Daily Life
2017

Battle cry

Kostas Maros

What looks like a photo of an escalating demonstration is actually a friendly water fight between two neighborhoods in Greater and Lesser Basel on a warm summer day. The black-and-white editing and the deliberate omission of the hallmarks of a water fight—water pistols or water balloons—mislead the viewer.

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Battle cry

Tageswoche

Photo / Daily Life
2017

Kostas Maros

What looks like a photo of an escalating demonstration is actually a friendly water fight between two neighborhoods in Greater and Lesser Basel on a warm summer day. The black-and-white editing and the deliberate omission of the hallmarks of a water fight—water pistols or water balloons—mislead the viewer.

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Kostas Maros / Swiss Press Award

Kostas Maros

Fotograf, Basel, 1980

Photographer Kostas Maros (*1980) completed a law degree at university and worked in the legal field for several years before switching to photography as a self-taught photographer in 2013. Since then, he has worked for editorial and corporate clients in Switzerland and abroad; he also realizes reportage and art projects. He is a member of the photo agency 13photo (www.13photo.ch). His artistic work is represented by Galerie Wertheimer (www.galeriewertheimer.ch). He has received awards for his photographic work, including the Prix de la Photographie Paris, the Vfg Young Talent Award, and the Swiss Press Award. In 2018, he won the Swiss Photo Award for his work "HIDDEN - Hidden Places in Switzerland."

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