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The making of a Swiss feature film.

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Thomas Kern was born in Switzerland in 1965. Trained as a photographer in Zürich, he started working as a photojournalist in 1989. He was a founder of the Swiss photographers agency Lookat Photos in 1990. Thomas Kern has won twice a World Press Award and has been awarded several Swiss national scholarships. His work has been widely exhibited and it is represented in various collections.

swissinfo’s Thomas Kern went on the set of Summer Birds, the first feature film by documentary maker Paul Riniker. The film premieres at the Locarno Film Festival.

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