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Rise & Fall (World 2017, by Dom Smaz) - Swiss Press Award

Francischelio Gomez Silva, who's got "Helio" nickname, football goalkeeper, 25 years old, on his community football field. He's always dreamed about to be a professional goalkeeper one day. Favela "Morro dos Prazeres", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2014.
Dom Smaz
Francischelio Gomez Silva, who's got "Helio" nickname, football goalkeeper, 25 years old, on his community football field. He's always dreamed about to be a professional goalkeeper one day. Favela "Morro dos Prazeres", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2014.
Photo / World
2017

Rise & Fall

Dom Smaz

The gaze of the world turned to Brazil when it was chosen to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Many believed these events would boost the country's development, but that was not the case. Past the excitement, Brazil continues with the same social problems as before and has been plunged into a serious economic-political crisis that culminated in the impeachment of President Rousseff.

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Rise & Fall

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Photo / World
2017

Dom Smaz

The gaze of the world turned to Brazil when it was chosen to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Many believed these events would boost the country's development, but that was not the case. Past the excitement, Brazil continues with the same social problems as before and has been plunged into a serious economic-political crisis that culminated in the impeachment of President Rousseff.

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Dom Smaz / Swiss Press Award

Dom Smaz

Photographer, Lausanne, 1983

DOM SMAZ is a Swiss-Brazilian photographer who is based in Lausanne (Switzerland), although he often works in Brazil. He won six Swiss Press Awards and for some ten years now has regularly contributed to both the national and international press, including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Tages Anzeiger. His photographs often deal with themes of colonial heritage, social differences and marginalization. In 2022, his first book Helvécia. A Swiss Colonial History in Brazil was published by Lars Müller Publishers, followed by a monographic exhibition at the Musée d Ethnographie de Genève (MEG), attended by over 13,000 visitors. In 2023, his book was one of three shortlisted for the prestigious English Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. Then Smaz was rewarded again by the Swiss Press Photo for his work about Helvécia, winning 2nd place in the Swiss Stories category. Since 2019, Smaz is a member of the French photographic agency Hans Lucas.

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