A country in a state of emergency
A country in a state of emergency
Dominic Nahr
May 18, 2015
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He spoke with LFI about his motivations, intuitive way of working, and the difficulty to reach closure.
Find the interview in LFI 4/2015, available as of May 22, 2015.
Dominic Nahr+-
Dominic Nahr was born in 1983 in Heiden, Switzerland, but grew up in Hong Kong. He lived and worked in many countries, including Kenya where he worked as a contract photographer for TIME magazine. At the end of 2017, he moved to Switzerland. Today he lives and works in Zurich. Nahr is a freelance photographer, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the first Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award and a World Press Photo Award. His photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, GEO, Der Spiegel, NZZ and many more. Nahr has a weekly photo column in the Swiss magazine Republik. More
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