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Private Zoo (Daily Life 2021, by Dom Smaz) - Swiss Press Award

Tinka la tigresse habite au zoo depuis 2004.
Dom Smaz
Tinka la tigresse habite au zoo depuis 2004.
2nd place
Photo / Daily Life
2021

Private Zoo

Dom Smaz

“The quiet is a good thing for some of the animals,” explains the director of the Servion Zoo in the Lausanne hinterland. The pheasants, for example: they’ve been laying more eggs than usual this spring. The monkeys, on the other hand, miss the visitors. “They’re a bit bored. We try to keep them on their toes.” Meanwhile, the industry is complaining that lockdown is being lifted later for zoos than for museums and libraries. They predict a weekly countrywide loss of 2.5 million francs. They expect additional help from the federal government: It is not possible to cut back on staff hours and maintain the animals’ care.

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Private Zoo

Le Temps

2nd place
Photo / Daily Life
2021

Dom Smaz

“The quiet is a good thing for some of the animals,” explains the director of the Servion Zoo in the Lausanne hinterland. The pheasants, for example: they’ve been laying more eggs than usual this spring. The monkeys, on the other hand, miss the visitors. “They’re a bit bored. We try to keep them on their toes.” Meanwhile, the industry is complaining that lockdown is being lifted later for zoos than for museums and libraries. They predict a weekly countrywide loss of 2.5 million francs. They expect additional help from the federal government: It is not possible to cut back on staff hours and maintain the animals’ care.

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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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