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The Cariocas (World 2019, by Dom Smaz) - Swiss Press Award

A child running on staircases. In the backside we can see the beach of Ipanema. Between rich neighborhoods, this favela that was once dangerous is undergoing a process of gentrification since the police drove out violent drug dealers. Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2014. Un enfant qui court dans les escaliers. À l'arrière, on peut voir la plage d'Ipanema. Entre des quartiers riches, cette favela qui était jadis dangereuse est en train de subir un processus de gentrification depuis que la police a chassé les trafiquants violents. Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil, mai 2014.
Dom Smaz
A child running on staircases. In the backside we can see the beach of Ipanema. Between rich neighborhoods, this favela that was once dangerous is undergoing a process of gentrification since the police drove out violent drug dealers. Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2014. Un enfant qui court dans les escaliers. À l'arrière, on peut voir la plage d'Ipanema. Entre des quartiers riches, cette favela qui était jadis dangereuse est en train de subir un processus de gentrification depuis que la police a chassé les trafiquants violents. Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil, mai 2014.
Photo / World
2019

The Cariocas

Dom Smaz

Rio de Janeiro's street photographs

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The Cariocas

Internazionale Magazine

Photo / World
2019

Dom Smaz

Rio de Janeiro's street photographs

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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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