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My Lake (Swiss Stories 2022, by Dom Smaz) - Swiss Press Award

Geneva Lake, Switzerland, August 2016 Lac Léman, Suisse, août 2016
Dom Smaz
Geneva Lake, Switzerland, August 2016 Lac Léman, Suisse, août 2016
2nd place
Photo / Swiss Stories
2022

My Lake

Dom Smaz

"Bathing is a form of disappearance. We gradually leave the surrounding air with almost our entire body in a double movement, because each volume thus removed from the atmosphere simultaneously appears in the water, according to the famous Archimedes' principle. "Do we bathe in the lake or are we bathed by it?" (extracts from the text by Lucien Senn) Leman, Switzerland, 2016-2021

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My Lake

L'Illustré

2nd place
Photo / Swiss Stories
2022

Dom Smaz

"Bathing is a form of disappearance. We gradually leave the surrounding air with almost our entire body in a double movement, because each volume thus removed from the atmosphere simultaneously appears in the water, according to the famous Archimedes' principle. "Do we bathe in the lake or are we bathed by it?" (extracts from the text by Lucien Senn) Leman, Switzerland, 2016-2021

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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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