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Relax Covid (People 2021, by Dom Smaz) - Swiss Press Award

Loïc Duc, gérant du Centre Relax, accompagné de Lorena, une de ses hôtesses. ​​​​​​​Face a la pandémie de Covid 19, les salons érotiques ont du fermer leurs portes. Depuis le 26 avril le déconfinement a commencé, mais ils ne peuvent toujours pas réouvrir (à l' instar des salons de massages ou de tatouages). Bulle, Suisse, le 15 mai 2020.
Dom Smaz
Loïc Duc, gérant du Centre Relax, accompagné de Lorena, une de ses hôtesses. ​​​​​​​Face a la pandémie de Covid 19, les salons érotiques ont du fermer leurs portes. Depuis le 26 avril le déconfinement a commencé, mais ils ne peuvent toujours pas réouvrir (à l' instar des salons de massages ou de tatouages). Bulle, Suisse, le 15 mai 2020.
Photo / People
2021

Relax Covid

Dom Smaz

Loïc Duc, manager of the Relax Center, accompanied by Lorena, one of his hostesses. Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, erotic salons have been forced to close their doors. Since April 26, the lockdown has been lifted, but they still cannot reopen (like massage or tattoo parlors). Bulle, Switzerland, May 15, 2020.

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Relax Covid

Le Matin Dimanche

Photo / People
2021

Dom Smaz

Loïc Duc, manager of the Relax Center, accompanied by Lorena, one of his hostesses. Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, erotic salons have been forced to close their doors. Since April 26, the lockdown has been lifted, but they still cannot reopen (like massage or tattoo parlors). Bulle, Switzerland, May 15, 2020.

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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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