Photography Collection

Dec 18, 2007

Espace Media awarded Swiss Press Photo Prize

Michael Wuertenberg, Greenpeace/ Spencer Tunick on Aletsch glacier

Espace media has awarded the SWISS PRESS photo price 2007. The first prize got Michael Wuertenberg from Zurich. His winner's image holds on the Greenpeace action of the American artist Spencer Tunick in which 600 naked bodies on Aletsch glacier symbolise the “vulnerability of the melting glaciers”.
135 press photographers, 27 female photographers among them, have submitted a total of 1841 images which have been published from September, 2006 to August, 2007 in Swiss print media.

Spencer Tunick, Aletsch glacier

Michael Würtenberg from Zurich won the top prize and the 1-st price of the category “art and culture” and shows a Greenpeace action on Aletsch glacier which has originated 18th August in collaboration with the American artist Spencer Tunick. Other prizewinners are in the categories “Actuality": Bruno Voser, "Portrait": Christine Baerlocher, "Sport": Pierre Albouy, “Everyday life and environment”: Michael Sieber and "foreign country": Sylvain Savolainen.
As a partner of Swiss Press Photo the Swiss Landesmuseum displays the winner's images as well as other selected photographs which depict important events of 2007.
The exhibition SWISS PRESS PHOTO 07 is to be seen in the Forum of Swiss History in Schwyz from 1st March to 27th April, 2008, in the Salon du Livre in Geneva from 30th April to 4th May and in the cage tower Bern from 22nd August to 4th October.