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Moving mountains (Sports 2017, by Dominic Steinmann) - Swiss Press Award

Swiss wrestlers at the ESAF Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival Estavayer 2016, Estavayer-le-Lac, at the Payerne military airfield.
Dominic Steinmann
Swiss wrestlers at the ESAF Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival Estavayer 2016, Estavayer-le-Lac, at the Payerne military airfield.
Photo / Sports
2017

Moving mountains

Dominic Steinmann

Whoever wants to be king must suffer—the toil and relief of the wrestlers are evident in their faces. Groaning, heaving, and tugging—getting a wrestler onto his back is almost like moving a mountain. Impressions from the Swiss Wrestling Festival in Estavayer-le-Lac.

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Moving mountains

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Photo / Sports
2017

Dominic Steinmann

Whoever wants to be king must suffer—the toil and relief of the wrestlers are evident in their faces. Groaning, heaving, and tugging—getting a wrestler onto his back is almost like moving a mountain. Impressions from the Swiss Wrestling Festival in Estavayer-le-Lac.

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Dominic Steinmann / Swiss Press Award

Dominic Steinmann

Press & Editorial Photographer, Brig-Glis, 1988

I attended the Press & Editorial Photography course at the Falmouth University in Great Britain and received a Bachelors degree in Science of Business Administration. After an intense internship as wire photographer for the press photo agency KEYSTONE-SDA and likewise as staff photographer at the renowned Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ, today I'm working as a freelance photographer for national and international newspapers, magazines, companies and agencies. As a Swiss country bumpkin I grew up in a remote alpine environment.

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