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!
Sir Don McCullin, Martin Parr, Tony Ray-Jones, Mary Turner, Mike Taylor, Peter Dench, Josh Edgoose, Terry O’Neill, Michel Bouvet. Plus the positions of Austrian photographers Richard Ladkani und Christian Skrein as well as German fashion photographer Esther Haase.

Richard Ladkani
Just Me, Jane!

Don McCullin
Life, Death and Everything in Between

Martin Parr
Fashion Faux Parr

Esther Haase
Vivienne, Andreas and Me

Tony Ray-Jones
The English Seen

Mary Turner
England on the Margins

Mike Taylor
The Beautiful Game

Peter Dench
The Ruling Class

Josh Edgoose
Swinging London
Terry O‘Neill
Rock Legends

Christian Skrein
Beatles go home!

Michel Bouvet
I Love the Beatles
The state of planet Earth
Gina Soden, Cig Harvey, Françoise Huguier, Frédéric Noy, Axelle de Russé, Corey Arnold, François Fontaine.

Gina Soden
Urbex, when nature reclaims its rights

Cig Harvey
Sensory Experiences

Françoise Huguier
Emotive Africa

Frédéric Noy
The Lost World of Udzungwa

Axelle de Russé
Polar Attractions

Corey Arnold
Animals in the City

François Fontaine
Eden
Water is Life
Laurent Ballesta, Robert Doisneau, Stéphane Lavoué, Supratim Bhattacharjee. In addition, the positions of Austrian photographers: Helmut Habersack & Gerald Mansberger & Markus Eisl, Günter Köck, Christin Gerstorfer

Helmut Habersack
Water is Life

Günter Köck
High Arctic

Christin Gerstorfer
That one breath

Laurent Ballesta
Planet Sea

Robert Doisneau
Let’s Go See the Sea

Stéphane Lavoué
Sea Workers

Supratim Bhattacharjee
Sundarbans, the Wrath of the Ocean
200 years of photography
Anna Atkins, Sir Brian May & Denis Pellerin & Paula Richardson Fleming, Robert Capa. In addition, the positions of Austrian photography: Der Traum vom Fliegen (Ana María Arévalo Gosen, Hans-Jürgen Burkard, Martina Draper, Nadia Ferroukhi, Jérôme Gence, Lois Lammerhuber, Ulla Lohmann, Heinz Stephan Tesarek). And the scientist and photographer Norbert Span.

Camera Obscura
Niederösterreichische Berufsfotografie

Anna Atkins
Cyanotypes

Brian May
Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell

Robert Capa
Close Enough

The Dream of Flying
Fotoprojekt Flughafen Wien

Norbert Span
Magical Beauty
In addition, there are
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, the photographs of professional photographers from Lower Austria, and the special exhibition 450 Years of Backhaus Annamühle by Christoph Künne.

THE SCHOOL PROJECT OF THE FESTIVAL LA GACILLY-BADEN PHOTO 2026
POP NATURE

DES COLLÉGIENS DU MORBIHAN
POP NATURE

CEWE PHOTO AWARD 2026
Our World is Beautiful

LOWER AUSTRIAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
I Love Coffee, I Love Tea

Christoph Künne
450 Years of Backhaus Annamühle – A Story in Images
Culture of solidarity
Under the guiding theme Culture of Solidarity, our collaboration with festival partners Garten Tulln – where we are showcasing the CEWE exhibition ‘Our World is Beautiful’ – and Bratislava Month of Photography will continue in 2026. A new addition is the partnership with the Schütz Art Museum in Engelhartszell, where we will be showcasing the Global Peace Photo Award. And Dieter Bornemann’s work “Aufgegessen!” is touring half of Austria.
