Photographers and Exhibitions 2025

AUSTRALIA & THE NEW WORLD Since its inception, our festival has been committed to repeatedly placing the nature that gives us life at the center of the exhibitions. Photographic narratives between beauty, humanistic reflection, anger and despair.

Australia: The Australian photographers are ambassadors for the beauty of a unique continent that needs to be preserved: Matthew Abbot, Narelle Autio, Tamara Dean, Adam Ferguson, Bobbi Lockyer, Trent Parke, Anne Zahalka, Viviane Dalles and Agence France-Presse.

In the New World, we encounter the works of Mitch Dobrowner, Louise Johns, Joel Meyerowitz and George Steinmetz in the United States. We juxtapose the work of the latter two photographers with exhibitions of the Austrians Alfred Seiland and Dieter Bornemann. Alessandro Cinque presents a long-term project from the Andean countries. We travel with Ulla Lohmann to Papua New Guinea and with Gaël Turine to Benin.

Alice Pallot, Sophie Zenon and Bernard Plossu take us to Brittany with their artistic perspectives.

Brent Stirton will make the almost invisible visible and shed light on the suffering of the approximately 80,000 ME/CFS sufferers in Austria. Hans-Jürgen Burkard has undertaken a musical and photographic journey through Germany for his work An Tagen wie diesen. The underwater photographs by Herbert Frei are dedicated to the Global Water Summit 2025.

In addition, there is our artist in residence Reiner Riedler, the photographs of the professional photographers of Lower Austria, the photography project of the Morbihan schools in Brittany and in Lower Austria, the exhibition “Our World is Beautiful”, which honors the winners of the CEWE photo competition – as well as the special exhibitions Code of the Universe and 100 Years of Federal Forests.

Under the guiding theme Culture of Solidarity, the collaboration with the festival partners Garten Tulln and Monat der Fotografie Bratislava will continue in 2025.

MATTHEW ABBOTT

Fires and Counter-fires

NARELLE AUTIO

The Call of the Oceans

Dieter & Isolde Bornemann

Eaten up! Use food instead of wasting it

Hans-Jürgen Burkard

An Tagen wie diesen

CEWE PHOTO AWARD 2025

OUR WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL

ALESSANDRO CINQUE

Soiled Earth, Damaged Bodies – Mining takes power in the Andean countries

Collectif Agence France-Presse

Survivals

CULTURE OF SOLIDARITY

THE EXHIBITIONS IN TULLN, BRATISLAVA AND BUDAPEST

VIVIANE DALLES

Terra Nullius

THE SCHOOL PROJECT OF THE FESTIVAL LA GACILLY-BADEN PHOTO 2025

The Spirit of Sport / Der Geist des Sports

TAMARA DEAN

In Search of an Eden

DES COLLÉGIENS DU MORBIHAN

13th Edition – The Spirit of Sport

MITCH DOBROWNER

In the Eye of the Storm

ADAM FERGUSON

Big Sky

Herbert Frei

THE FRESHWATER POPE

LOUISE JOHNS

Wild Wide West

BOBBI LOCKYER

Origins

ULLA LOHMANN

New Britain and the People of the Volcanoes – A culture at risk

JOEL MEYEROWITZ

Through the Cities

LOWER AUSTRIAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

CULTURAL HERITAGE MONASTERIES & PUBLIC GARDENS

ALICE PALLOT

The Perils of Nature

TRENT PARKE

Australia, Unfiltered

BERNARD PLOSSU

Fresson Colours

Reiner Riedler

Artist in Residence: This was the Festival 2024 “Natural Heritage”

Pia Scharler & Craig Dillon

THE FOREST IS THE GREATEST ARTIST

Alfred Seiland

East Coast to West Coast

Alfred Seiland

Clever minds

SPECIAL EXHIBIT CERN 1 – 27 July 2025

Der Code des Universums – Future Circular Collider

GEORGE STEINMETZ

Feed the Planet

Brent Stirton

ME/CFS – Life and suffering in the shadows

GAËL TURINE

The Spirits of the Forest

ANNE ZAHALKA

Fragments of Wild Life

SOPHIE ZÉNON

The Memory of Stones – Discovering sensitive rural heritage in Morbihan