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On the run (Swiss Stories 2015, by Cédric Von Niederhäusern) - Swiss Press Award

A boy looks sadly towards Kobani. Many families are staying right on the border with
Cédric Von Niederhäusern
A boy looks sadly towards Kobani. Many families are staying right on the border with
Photo / Swiss Stories
2015

On the run

Cédric Von Niederhäusern

The war in Syria displaced thousands of Kurds in the north of the country. Many residents of the embattled city of Kobani fled to the border town of Suruc in Turkey. At the end of November 2014, I accompanied a Swiss aid mission to this area and documented the lives of the refugees. The images depict the silent suffering of the people living in makeshift shelters, hoping to return to their homeland, relatively safe from the violence of the war, but still completely exposed to its effects.

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On the run

Tages-Anzeiger

Photo / Swiss Stories
2015

Cédric Von Niederhäusern

The war in Syria displaced thousands of Kurds in the north of the country. Many residents of the embattled city of Kobani fled to the border town of Suruc in Turkey. At the end of November 2014, I accompanied a Swiss aid mission to this area and documented the lives of the refugees. The images depict the silent suffering of the people living in makeshift shelters, hoping to return to their homeland, relatively safe from the violence of the war, but still completely exposed to its effects.

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Cédric Von Niederhäusern / Swiss Press Award

Cédric Von Niederhäusern

Fotograf, Bern, 1992

Cédric von Niederhäusern is a documentary photographer. He was born in Bern, Switzerland, and worked as a photographer for several media outlets and as photo editor for the daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. His documentary project „Leaving war behind“ (2014) about the refugee crisis in Turkey at the border to Syria was part of several exhibitions in Switzerland and at VISA pour l’Image in Perpignan, France (2015). Selected work has been published in the books Swiss Press Photo 13 and Swiss Press Photo 15. Recently graduated from the Visual Journalism and Documentary Practice program at the International Center of Photography in New York, he is focusing on political issues in the United States, specialising in the 2016 election year and the polarisation of the public that surrounds it.

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