Gian Luca (Swiss Stories 2017, by Eleni Kougionis) - Swiss Press Award

Eleni Kougionis
Nach einer Behandlung setzt er sich in den Spitalpark.
2nd place
Photo / Swiss Stories
2017
Eleni Kougionis
Illness is changing the young musician Gian Luca. On 25th July 2016 he sits through a cancer treatment in the hospital park (57); a year earlier he observed the increasing evidence of his affliction in the mirror (60). Gian Luca has leukaemia. Every day he has to take huge amounts of medication; and yet he has still not managed to quit smoking (59). Alongside all this misery, his guitar remains his constant companion.
