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Drinkings and Defeats (Daily Life 2017, by Dom Smaz) - Swiss Press Award

One of the young people who arrived during the night is unable to sleep. Emergency Alcohol Treatment Unit, University Medical Polyclinic, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland. October 8, 2016.
Dom Smaz
One of the young people who arrived during the night is unable to sleep. Emergency Alcohol Treatment Unit, University Medical Polyclinic, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland. October 8, 2016.
Photo / Daily Life
2017

Drinkings and Defeats

Dom Smaz

Emergency departments are receiving more and more patients suffering from acute alcohol intoxication. To the point that the CHUV, for example, created a sobering-up unit last year, which became the Emergency Alcoholism Unit on October 8, 2016.

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Drinkings and Defeats

Migros Magazine

Photo / Daily Life
2017

Dom Smaz

Emergency departments are receiving more and more patients suffering from acute alcohol intoxication. To the point that the CHUV, for example, created a sobering-up unit last year, which became the Emergency Alcoholism Unit on October 8, 2016.

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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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