Claire Parkes-Bärfuss (People 2016, by Mara Truog) - Swiss Press Award

Mara Truog
Claire Parkes-Bärfuss
Migros Magazin
Winner
Photo / People
2016
Mara Truog
This is Claire Parkes-Bärfuss. She was born in 1913, a workingclass child. Raised in a foster home, she toiled as a lowly domestic worker, moved to London, emigrated to New Zealand with her English husband, and returned to her hometown in Emmental at 99 years old.