Daria Heß, Germany
Daria Heß is a young photographer from Germany.
“Peace for me means being able to be happy and accept life, even while you also have worries and fears. Peace means having the energy to be led more by the beautiful things than by difficulties.” This is what Daria Heß wrote under the picture she sent us from Hamburg.
And the photo visualizes what she means. Daria is 15 years old and seems to have many interests and options. If you google her, she pops up in the winner lists of school chess tournaments and maths olympics as well as in the participant lists of swimming competitions. Looking for new challenges, her father says, Daria has just switched to a boarding school in England for a year. Sounds quite professional.
Daria links the word happiness with the word self-determination. And both with word peace.
(Laudatio by Peter-Matthias Gaede)