Photographers and Exhibitions 2023
ORIENT! focuses on photographers from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Abbas, Gohar Dashti and Hamed Noori, Ebrahim Noroozi, Maryam Firuzi, Hashem Shakeri, Paul Almasy, Véronique de Viguerie, Fatimah Hossaini, Shah Marai and Wakil Kohsar, Sarah Caron.
Since its inception, the festival has never wavered from its mission to show the beauty of nature as well
as to address the need to protect it. The photographers at our festival are determined to be witnesses and part of the effort to preserve our most beautiful common asset – planet Earth: Mélanie Wenger, Bernard Descamps, Gabriele Cecconi, Stephan Gladieu, Money Sharma, Reporters Without Borders, Brigitte Kössner-Skoff and Gerhard Skoff, Antonin Borgeaud, Jérôme Blin, Alisa Martynova, Maxime Taillez, Chloé Azzopardi.
Photography undoubtedly remains the most incisive tool for changing public opinion and for preserving glimmers of humanity. The Austrian photographers Rudolf Koppitz and Horst Stasny also stand in this tradition. From Gregor Schörg, the festival will show the second part of his work on the wilderness area Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. The exhibition of Lower Austrian professional photographers and the exhibition of the winning photos of the world’s largest photo competition, CEWE’s „Our World is Beautiful„, with almost 700,000 pictures from 170 countries, will round up the festival, as will the retrospective of 2021 in the pictures of the artist in residence Pascal Maitre. A photographic highlight is the commissioned work to Cathrine Stukhard, who visited the World Heritage Site of Vichy and placed it in the context of UNESCO’s eleven „Great Spa Towns of Europe“, which also includes Baden near Vienna.
Under the guiding principle of Culture of Solidarity, the cooperation with the festival partners Garden Tulln, Celje in Slovenia and Month of Photography Bratislava will continue in 2023.
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ABBAS
Light and shadow

Paul Almasy
Travel in an enlightened kingdom

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
THIS WAS THE FESTIVAL 2022 "DUE NORTH"

Chloé Azzopardi
Ecosystems

Jérôme Blin
The promise

Antonin Borgeaud
A showcase for the islands

Sarah Caron
The Land of the Pure

Gabriele Cecconi
The wretched and the earth

Cewe Photo Award
OUR WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL

Cinema Paradiso – Orient!
Film Series: Orient!

CULTURE OF SOLIDARITY
THE EXHIBITIONS IN TULLN, CELJE AND BRATISLAVA

Gohar Dashti
Fragments of memories

Bernard Descamps
Natura

Maryam Firuzi
Persian identities

Stéphan Gladieu
Homo Detritus

Fatimah Hossaini
Under the veil

RUDOLF KOPPITZ
Photogenie

Shah Marai & Wakil Kohsar
A painful history

Alisa Martynova
Nowhere Near

Ebrahim Noroozi
Deceptive daydreams

Niederösterreichische Berufsfotografen
World Heritage Lower Austria

Prix Nouvelles écritures de la photographie environnementale
Discovering new perspectives

Reporters Without Borders
Trees

GREGOR SCHÖRG
WILDERNESS AREA DÜRRENSTEIN-LASSINGTAL

Hashem Shakeri
Sandy landscapes

Money Sharma
Indian night

Horst Stasny
ICONS

Gerhard Skoff & Brigitte Kössner-Skoff
Indias Living Root Bridges

Cathrine Stukhard
World Heritage Great Spa Towns of Europe – VICHY

Maxime Taillez
Border(s)

THE SCHOOL PROJECT OF THE FESTIVAL LA GACILLY-BADEN PHOTO 2023
"ÖFFNUNGEN / OPENINGS"

Véronique de Viguerie
Shards of peace

Mélanie Wenger
At the heart of the largest French sanctuary
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