Idolized and despised (Swiss Stories 2021, by Jojo Schulmeister) - Swiss Press Award
Jojo Schulmeister
Fotoshoot im Schnee für sein Shirt-Label SAFE 505
Schweizer Illustrierte
2nd place
Photo / Swiss Stories
2021
Jojo Schulmeister
Thierry Gnahoré is a hip-hop artist, one of the best in his field. He has taken the name “Nativ”, with a defiant irony: he does not feel particularly “local” or “native”. Too black for Switzerland, too white for the Ivory Coast – Gnahoré, who grew up in the Bernese village of Niederscherli as the son of an African father and a Swiss mother (118), has two homes, and he doesn’t feel completely at home in either. “Hüt isch e guete Tag für ne Change” (Today is a good day for a change), it says on a poster at the “Black Lives Matter” rally at the Bundesplatz on
13 June (119). The phrase comes from “Sira”, one of Nativ’s songs.
