Category: photoart
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Räume des Widerstands
„PIRATI CICLISTI ANTIFASCISTI!“ in den SOHO Studios Ottakring (scroll down for English text) Sport wird oft als etwas Neutrales dargestellt. Bewegung, Gesundheit, Freizeit, Wettbewerb. Die Ausstellung „PIRATI CICLISTI ANTIFASCISTI!“ in den SOHO Studios Ottakring zeigt dagegen, dass Sport immer auch mit Öffentlichkeit, Zugehörigkeit, Politik und sozialem Raum zu tun hat. Gemeinsam mit @igersaustria.at besuchte ich…
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Mehr als schöne Fische
(scroll down for English text) Die meisten Menschen denken bei Unterwasserfotografie wahrscheinlich zuerst an hübsche Fische, Korallen und Screensaver-Ästhetik. Die aktuelle Ausstellung „Unter Wasser“ im WestLicht zeigt sich vielseitiger, mit Eindrücken aus verschiedenen Dekaden und weit hinaus über dekorative blaue Meere. Unterwasserfotografie erzählt hier so viel über Menschen wie über das Wasser selbst. Ich war…
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Gregor Sailer: Unseen Places
Gregor Sailer´s photos of empty places are sensational, but not sensationalist. In a major exhibition at Kunsthaus Wien (at Hundertwasserhaus) you can still view the exhibition until next weekend. Gregor Sailer lives in Tirol, his “quiet zone”, where he plans the often very complex and difficult photo tours to remote and hard to visit places…
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Ernst Haas – The Art of Seeing
Here is something not to be missed for photography lovers: Ernst Haas – The Art of Seeing at WestLicht Gallery in Vienna. I actually went to the exhibition opening last year, but am only now getting around to processing my photos from the event and writing about this great master photographer. But I wanted to…
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City of Images
EXHIBITION REVIEW: For the third year in a row, the small town of Baden near Vienna has become an outdoor photography gallery. Billed as the largest European photography festival, the exhibitions are spread all across downtown Baden´s streets and parks. In times of the Covid-19 pandemic, there could not be a more ideal setting for…
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Abstractions
I spent the entire last week at a “Fine Art Creative” photography workshop at Stift Goettweig. One of my aims for this workshop, apart from good company among like-minded people, was to expand my photographic horizons towards experimental and abstract photography. Here I show you some of the results, something rather different from my usual…
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Ping Pong for photographers
One of several cultural activities I meant to write about while the exhibition is still open was a visit to the OstLicht Gallery with Instagramers Vienna, an invitation by Female Photographers Vienna. This was supposed to be on until 28 March, but of course COVID-19 also closed down this space, although from the website I…
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Family matters
They say, you can choose your friends, but not your family. Well, I guess that depends on how you define family. The way the Dom Museum Wien sees it, there is certainly many ways to look at families, and family histories can be tragedies or comedies, or both. The current exhibition, Family Matters at the…
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A moody Christmas present in my inbox
I just got a really nice Christmas present in my inbox. The third issue of the Street and Moody Zine, aptly sub-titled Merry drunk! I’m Christmas! is out. For the latest issue the editor featured my Aarhus photo as chapter cover for the Moody section and also included two more of my photos. So permit…
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A hymn to the earth in Baden
For the second year now, the city of Baden near Vienna is hosting the photo festival La Gacilly-Baden, and all over downtown you can feast your eyes on outstanding photo-art. Huge photographs by acclaimed photographers from around the world grace building walls, line walking paths and frame baroque palaces. If the charms of Baden alone…
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