Photographers and Exhibitions 2021
VIVA LATINA! is the theme of the 2021 Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo. It will present photographs from Latin America that reflect the complexity of the continent’s history, full of revolutions and hopes, its jumble of traditions, in which dreams of the West mingle with shamanistic world views; as well as the fervour of its society, shaped by violence and a powerful joy of life. Whether they come from Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico or Argentina, all photographers of our Festival are firmly rooted in everyday life. They capture the diversity of the people on this continent, explore the urban chaos and lament the damage done to nature – and they do this poetically, creatively and humorously. But above all, they stand for photographic art full of energy and inventiveness.
The Festival will also celebrate the biodiversity of our planet. The World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was to be held in Marseille in mid-June 2020, to be followed by the COP15 of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Kunming, China, in October. But the ongoing pandemic shredded the schedule and these two events, so essential for the protection of our ecosystems, were postponed to 2021. We have adapted to this change and will present exhibitions in 2021 that were created by some of the best photographers in the world to document the essence and importance of biodiversity on our planet. They want to help connecting people more deeply with the realm of nature.
As a special service in this second covid year 2021, we offer you the festival catalogue and the festival plan as well as the festival book as free downloads: Download here.
To visualize these two highly complex narrative strands, 22 photographers, six photographer collectives and 16 Lower Austrian schools are taking part, in a humanist frame of mind, appealing to peace, tolerance and togetherness: Emmanuel Honorato Vázquez, Sebastião Salgado, Marcos López, Luisa Dörr, Cássio Vasconcellos, Carolina Arantes, Pablo Corral Vega, Tomás Munita, Carl de Souza, Pedro Pardo, Martin Bernetti, Greg Lecoeur, Nadia Shira Cohen, Emmanuel Berthier, David Bart, Coline Jourdan, Sébastien Leban, Ulla Lohmann, Catalina Martin-Chico, Pascal Maitre, Éric Valli and Lois Lammerhuber.

Artist in Residence
This was the Festival 2020

AFP & La Gacilly
The AFP & La Gacilly, a joint fight for the planet

Carolina Arantes
The green gold rush

David Bart
CHINA 0.06

Martin Bernetti
Emergency

Emmanuel Berthier
The Morbihan Sanctuaries

Cewe Photo Award
Our World is Beautiful

Nadia Shira Cohen
God’s Honey

Pablo Corral Vega
The hymn of the Andes

Das Fotofestival der Schulen Niederösterreichs
Diversity(ies)

Carl de Souza
The revolt of the indigenous Amazon populations

The Photographers of the festival
My most favourite tree

Luisa Dörr
Mulheres

Festival Photo des Collègiens du Morbihan
Diversity(ies)

Fisheye
Climate & photography: a commitment for our times

Global Peace Photo Award
What does peace look like?

Coline Jourdan
The blackness of the red river

Lois Lammerhuber
Latin American Trilogy

Sébastien Leban
Tangier, the forgotten island

Greg Lecoeur
Journey to the centre of the sea

Ulla Lohmann
THE GUARDIANS OF BIODIVERSITY

Marcos López
Pop Latino

Pascal Maitre
THE INCREDIBLE ODYSSEY OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY

Tomás Munita
Patagonia’s cowboys

Catalina Martin-Chico
ECUADOR, THE LIVING FOREST

Niederösterreichische Berufsfotografen
OUR TREES AT HOME

ORF KULTUR-MONTAG
#dubistkunst

Pedro Pardo
Dark horizons

Sebastião Salgado
Gold

Éric Valli
Honey Hunters

Cássio Vasconcellos
Beyond reality

Emmanuel Honorato Vázquez
The forgotten photographer of the 1920s
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