Photographers and Exhibitions 2026
Welcome! Bienvenue! Welcome! Since its inception, our festival has been committed to placing nature, which gives us life, at the centre of its exhibitions. Photographic narratives between beauty, humanistic reflection, anger and despair.
Here you will find the themes of the 2026 festival and an introduction to the photographers.
SO BRITISH!
Martin Parr, Tony Ray-Jones, Peter Dench, Josh Edgoose, Terry O’Neill, Mary Turner, Mike Taylor, Michel Bouvet. Plus the positions of Austrian photography: Christian Skrein, Inge Prader.
The state of planet Earth
Gina Soden, Cig Harvey, Françoise Huguier, Frédéric Noy, Axelle de Russé, Corey Arnold, François Fontaine. In addition, the positions of Austrian photography: Richard Ladkani, Norbert Span, Der Traum vom Fliegen (Lois Lammerhuber, Ana María Arévalo Gosen, Hans-Jürgen Burkard, Heinz Stephan Tesarek, Jérôme Gence, Martina Draper, Nadia Ferroukhi, Ulla Lohmann)
Gina Soden
Urbex, when nature reclaims its rights
Cig Harvey
Sensory Experiences
Françoise Huguier
Emotive Africa
Frédéric Noy
The Lost World of Udzungwa
Corey Arnold
Animals in the City
François Fontaine
Eden
Focus on the Blue Planet
Laurent Ballesta, Robert Doisneau, Stéphane Lavoué, Supratim Bhattacharjee. In addition, the positions of Austrian photography: 100th anniversary of the Strandbad Baden, Helmut Habersack & Gerald Mansberger & Markus Eisl, Günter Köck, Christin Gerstorfer
Laurent Ballesta
Planet Sea
Stéphane Lavoué
Sea Workers
Supratim Bhattacharjee
Sundarbans, the Wrath of the Ocean
Focus on 200 years of photography
Anna Atkins, Sir Brian May & Denis Pellerin & Paula Richardson Fleming, Robert Capa.
In addition, there are
Our artist in residence Sabine Starmayer, accompanied by texts by the 2024 Thomas Jorda Prize winner Elisabeth Steinkellner, the photographs of professional photographers from Lower Austria, the photography project by schools in Morbihan in Brittany and Lower Austria, the exhibition ‘Our World is Beautiful’, which honours the winners of the CEWE photo competition, and the special exhibition 450 Years of Backhaus Annamühle by Christoph Künne.
Culture of solidarity
Under the guiding theme Culture of Solidarity, the collaboration with the festival partners Garten Tulln and Monat der Fotografie Bratislava will continue in 2026. A new partnership has been established with the city of Nürnberg/Belgrade, where we will be presenting the Global Peace Photo Award.