PR Image Award goes to Mammut Sports Group
Mammut has won the PR Picture Award 2014 for Switzerland. PR managers from Switzerland, Germany and Austria submitted around 1'700 images for the competition.
The industry award was presented by News Aktuell Switzerland together with the DPA subsidiary News Aktuell and the Austrian APA-OTS.
news aktuell announced the winners on Thursday evening at a festive awards ceremony in Hamburg. The winning shot "Iceclimbing by Night" shows a team of mammoth climbers conquering gigantic icefalls in Norway at night. The preparations for the shot by photographer Thomas Senf took several hours: Lamps were fixed in the ice with elaborate rope constructions and around 700 meters of cable were laid.
Twelve industry professionals initially made a shortlist of 60 images in August. This shortlist was put to the public vote online for two months. Around 20,000 participants - more than ever before - then voted for their favorites. Prizes were awarded in the categories of product photo, portrait, corporate communications, event and trade show, NGO photo, and tourism, leisure and sports.
The Women's Center Zurich achieved a top place in the NGO photo category. With the photograph "Domestic violence rarely knows only one victim". she landed in the top 10.
The Swiss Red Cross also made it into the final ten in this category.
In the Corporate Communications category, the Canton of Glarus Department of Economic and Internal Affairs Cantonal Marketing, Panta Rhei PR, was able to claim a place in the top ten.
The Christian Fischbacher company made it onto the shortlist twice: with the photographs "Fleur" and "Rendezvous" in the product photo category.
In the category Tourism, Leisure and Sports, Engelberg Tourism and Valais/Wallis Promotion made it to the final round with exciting mountain images.
PR Picture of the Year 2014 for Germany was the "Voith Francis Turbine" from the technology group Voith. For Austria, the winner was Lebenshilfe Vienna with its portrait photo "Menschenbild. More than 200 guests watched the announcement of the winners in Hamburg's Stilwerk. The media partner of the PR Picture Award in Switzerland is the magazine Persönlich.
