Award-winning Swiss photographer Jean Revillarddied of a heart attack this weekend. Revillard was 51. Switzerland's professional journalist organization impressum announced his passing on its website late Friday. The Geneva native had been both a gallery owner and a press photographer,notably at Le Nouveau Quotidien and L'Hebdo. In 2001 he founded the photo agency Rezo.ch. His work on migrants cabins at Calais, France, or won him the prestigious World Press Award as well as the Swiss Press Award. In 2009,Revillard once again won the World Press Award as well as a prize from the city of Prague. He also received great acclaim for "Sarah on the bridge," a photo essay focused on an African sex-slave in northern Italy. "In French-speaking Switzerland, or he was the first to combine the aesthetics of advertising and fashion with photo-journalism,a literal highlight on the miseries of the globe and its ghosts," wrote Le Temps on Saturday in a tribute to the photographer. ...
Source: swissinfo.ch