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Ueli Maurer is blinded by the rainbow (People 2023, by Dominic Steinmann) - Swiss Press Award

Portrait Ueli Maurer
Dominic Steinmann
Portrait Ueli Maurer
Photo / People
2023

Ueli Maurer is blinded by the rainbow

Dominic Steinmann

Ueli Maurer, Federal Councillor (SVP), Head of the Federal Department of Finance, poses for a portrait at the Federal Department of Finance in Bern, on Monday, December 19, 2022. In his resignation statement to the media, Federal Councillor Maurer mentioned that he did not care about the gender of his successor, as long as it was not an "it," it was still okay – the shitstorm was complete.

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Ueli Maurer is blinded by the rainbow

NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Photo / People
2023

Dominic Steinmann

Ueli Maurer, Federal Councillor (SVP), Head of the Federal Department of Finance, poses for a portrait at the Federal Department of Finance in Bern, on Monday, December 19, 2022. In his resignation statement to the media, Federal Councillor Maurer mentioned that he did not care about the gender of his successor, as long as it was not an "it," it was still okay – the shitstorm was complete.

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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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