Swiss rockfall image voted press photo of the year

A picture of the devastation caused by a landslide in Blatten, Switzerland, has won a top prize in the Swiss Press Photo competition. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Laurent Gilliéron from the Keystone-SDA news agency won first prize in the topicality category with his picture Blatten 2030 on the landslide in the Lötschental valley in canton Valais. It shows a destroyed house in a dammed lake that has formed due to the mass of debris. The picture was taken in September 2025, when the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the Blatten 2030 reconstruction project took place. In second and third place in this category are Flavia Leuenberger Ceppi (Le Temps) with the topic Femicide and Boris Müller on the SVP Albisgüetlitagung (Zürcher Oberländer). First place in the Everyday Life category went to Sabine Hess (NZZ Folio) with an article on Charles Bonnet syndrome. Odile Meylan (24Heures) won the main prize in the Swiss Stories category with "Le parc Jorat, la ... Full story here Are you the author? Previous post See more for 3.) Swissinfo Business and Economy Next post
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