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Ringier Management Conference: Finding inspiration in first-rate speakers DMO The Energy cosmos Programmed In-house journal for success June 2015 American war photographer Lynsey Addario talks about her life and her job «It’s a calling» CONTENTS 4 «I’m grateful I’m still alive» American photographer Lynsey June edition Addario captures images of war, terror and hunger. While pregnant, she of DOMO as photographed children in Somalia; she was abducted, and she won a Pulitzer e-magazine Prize. Her faith in journalism is the stuff that movies are made of. Says star 4 12 director Steven Spielberg. 12 Inspiration in the mountains «Do something!» was the appeal at the Ringier Management Conference in Davos. The focus was on entrepreneur- ialism, change and global digitalization. 16 Focus on Ringier The best press photos of the last quarter from around the world. 18 Cool music and snappy patter Twelve years ago, Energy began broadcasting in Switzerland. Today the Energy cosmos encompasses radio stations in Zurich, Bern and Basel, a TV channel, Apps and top-notch events: a success story. 24 Inhouse Ringier Romandy leads the way: an online portal, a daily, a weekly and a women’s magazine are united in one newsroom. A brilliant balancing act! 26 Ringier meets the stars The man from the moon visits Switzerland, and DOMO author René Haenig rises to the occasion. The 4 upshot: Apollo-11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is like «Star Trek» - only better. 28 Michael Ringier When power trumps fair competition, the bottom line is: The same rules apply to – almost – everyone. 29 Collecting Lines - 20 years of 18 the Ringier Collection The two anniversary exhibitions focus on drawings and works on paper. 30 Anniversaries Obituary / Employment Anniversaries / Recommended reading. Cover: Balazs Gardi / balazsgardi.com 16 29 Publishing Information Publisher: Ringier AG, Corporate Communications. Executive Editor: Edi Estermann, CCO, Dufourstrasse 23, 8008 Zurich. Editor-in-chief: Bettina Bono. Contributors: Ulli Glantz (visual realization), René Haenig, Peter Hossli, Michael Ernst 24 Merz. Translators: Xavier Pellegrini/Textes.ch (French), Claudia Bodmer (English), Ioana Chivoiu (Romanian), Lin Chao/Yuan Pei Translation (Chinese). Proofreading: Regula Osman, Peter Hofer, Kurt Schuiki (German), Patrick Morier-Genoud (French), Claudia Bodmer (English), Mihaela Stănculescu (Romanian). Layout /Production: Zuni Halpern (Switzerland), Jinrong Zheng (China). Image Editing: Ringier Redaktions Services Zurich. Druck: Ringier Print Ostrava and SNP Leefung Printers. No portion may be reprinted without the editor’s permission. Circulation: 12,400 copies. DOMO international is published in German, French, English, Romanian and Chinese. 26 Photos: Nichole Sobecki, Thomas Buchwalder, Geri Born (2), David Birri for Schweizer Illustrierte, Energy/Handout, Charly Hug, Nadja Athanasiou for Landliebe DOMO – June 2015 | 3 Photography «I’m Grateful I’m Still Alive» American photographer Lynsey Addario captures images of war, terror and hunger. October 2007, in She focuses on the world of women while the Korengal Valley in trying to combine her passion for the job Afghanistan. U.S. soldiers help with a normal life. wounded comrades walk to Interview: Peter Hossli Photos: Lynsey Addario / Getty Images Reportage a helicopter. 4 | DOMO – June 2015 DOMO – June 2015 | 5 Photography merican-born Lynsey Addario forgetting that women are pregnant How does being a mother change your A (41) first got into photography in and giving birth every single day in understanding of the suffering you’ve Argentina. She was inspired by an Somalia. Why don’t you care about covered? exhibition by Brazilian photographer the women in Somalia who are preg- It’s just enhanced my understanding. Sebastião Salgado (71) in Buenos nant and giving birth under those I’ve always been extremely compas- Aires. Later, she travelled through conditions? sionate and I’ve always tried to un- Cuba, and in 2000 went to Afghani- derstand what people are going stan to portray the country under But are you careless? through. But I think, as a mother I Taliban rule. Newspapers and mag- I don’t think of myself as careless. I can now really understand that bond azines like «The New York Times», went there to cover the drought, and that visceral sort of need to keep «Time» and «National Geographic» which was not fighting, and it was a your child alive and healthy, provide began to take notice of her. Since four-day trip. them with the safety and all of the then, Addario has travelled to sever- things a child needs. al war zones and crisis areas, includ- Still, you put yourself and your child ing Iraq, the Congo, Haiti and Paki- in danger. And how has it changed your work? stan. In March 2011, she was I wasn’t having any complications I’m not really working on the front kidnapped in Libya along with three with my pregnancy. I was very line any more. I continue to work in other journalists. She has won a Pu- healthy. If they’re so angry with a war zones. I’m working in Iraq and litzer Prize and a MacArthur Fellow- journalist going in there for four days Afghanistan and all those places, but ship. they should really focus their energy I’m sort of a step back. I’m focusing on women in Somalia. more on civilians; I’m focusing on refugees a lot. So I’m trying to do the In Somalia, you photographed work from a little removed. children with medical needs. They needed a doctor. What could you do Journalists say that you’re only as with a camera? good as your last story… Well, I’m a journalist. Basically. I’m … sure… comfortably photographing peo- ple who are in need of a doctor. If I … how afraid were you that you show their condition and show the wouldn’t be as good anymore once Mogadishu, fact that there are hundreds of chil- you had a child? Somalia, August dren suffering from malnutrition Oh, I was terrified. I was so ambiva- 2011. This boy at the height of the drought in the lent about getting pregnant because suffers from Horn of Africa, then aid agencies I just didn’t understand how I would measles and will go in or policy members will do continue to do the work and be a malnourishment. something to help people. For me, mother. I didn’t know if I’d still be the greatest tool I have is my camera. able to travel, if I’d even be able to leave my son. In my entire adult life, ting to the place where I need to tell living, I believe in it, and I see the hanging out. I’m not going in there A journalist’s work is her life. It all I cared about were my stories. these stories, be a messenger, get the impact I’m making – I see the ability with sort of my camera blazing in defined who we are. It’s not just a job. word out. And those are the things to educate people, to help people, to people’s faces. What is it for you? You have a tremendous work ethic. that drive me. Adrenaline is certain- get policy makers to react – and then I’m not doing this job for money. I’m What drives you? ly present in combat, but I’d say suddenly I can’t stop. It’s certainly What advantages do you have as a doing this job because I believe in it. I put an extraordinary amount of combat is like, you know, five percent not about the bravado. It’s very frus- woman photographer in a conflict Ms. Addario, you felt your unborn son People need to see what’s happening pressure on myself. My parents are of what I do. trating to me when people use the zone? for the first time when you entered to other people around the world. extremely hard working. They raised word addiction. It’s such a superfi- In a conflict zone, I just think it Somalia. What went through your People need to have perspective, us with an incredible But as a war photographer… cial, dismissive way of talking about doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a head? when there are humanitarian crises, work ethic. My grandpar- … I’m always sort of confused by the people who have dedicated their woman. Things are happening very Lynsey Addario: It was a very difficult human rights abuses, or war. It’s our ents are Italian. One of war photographer title, because I lives to something so much more quickly and it’s really just a matter of time for me. I was ambivalent about responsibility in the developed West- my grandmothers came honestly I don’t think I’m a very good important. how quickly you move and what being pregnant. And I was in denial. ern world to look at these things and over to Ellis Island from combat photographer. I happen to you’re looking for. I knew I wanted a family, but as a to see what we can do to help. Southern Italy. My have worked in a lot of war zones, but Robert Frank once told me that when woman with this profession I grandparents were very that’s primarily because I was doing he started out, people would let him You work a lot in Muslim countries. couldn’t figure out how I would man- You were photographing a child poor. And so they had to other stories on civilians that happen photograph them, but now nobody How difficult is it being a woman age it while being on the road all the dying while you felt your son kicking Lynsey Addario work very hard for everything they to be in war zones.