Swiss and World Press Photo Exhibition/New Paléo Poster 2016

If you are interested in photography, the Swiss Press and the World Press Photo exhibitions currently showing at the Château de Prangins, are definitely worth a visit. These two exhibitions feature the outstanding Swiss press photographs of 2014 and photos from the World Press Photo 15 competition. The photo in the poster below (from the International section of the Swiss exhibition), was taken by Jean Revillard from L'Hebdo magazine. It is from a series of photos featuring people with electro sensitivity. They purportedly experience physical symptoms when exposed to electro magnetic fields. In order to get rid of any excess charge they "ground themselves". To recover, they withdraw to places far from electromagnetic fields caused by WiFi networks aerials and transformers such as the wilderness of the French departments of Drôme or Hautes Alpes.

The following photo below was taken by Yvain Genevay. He won Swiss Press Photographer of the Year and in 2014  documented the story of a family of Syrian refugees currently living in Domodossola. His photos were published in Le Matin Dimanche

Also in the Swiss News section, there is an interesting photo of Federal Councillor Johann Schneider Amman leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos in a Cougar T-399 helicopter. You can just see his face through the window of the helicopter. In the background the setting winter sun illuminates the facade of the new luxury hotel Intercontinental which is nicknamed the "golden egg".

The Swiss Press Photo exhibition is from the 6th November until the 31st January 2016.  Details here

The World Press Photo exhibition is only on display until the 29th November. Details here

Note: the café/restaurant of the château serves Sunday brunches from 11:00-15:00 and the shop in the museum has some interesting items on sale, some of them would make some great Christmas gifts.

Paléo Poster revealed for 2016 

Next year's Paléo poster has now been revealed to the public and it is already receiving some commentary on social media on how the fish on the poster reflects the fish/ the perch on Nyon's own flag. Whether this is intentional or not, who knows?! The poster was designed by Ana Lourenço and Boris Jordan, two 22 year old second-year students in visual communication.  Both students train in a workshop at the Geneva-based agency BaseDesign at the city’s School of Art & Design

A note for your diaries: Paléo will take place from the 19th -14th July 2016