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.
Don McCullin
Life, Death and Everything in Between
Martin Parr
Fashion Faux Parr
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. In addition, the positions of Austrian photography: 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
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
Laurent Ballesta
Planet Sea
Robert Doisneau
Let’s Go See the Sea
Stéphane Lavoué
Sea Workers
Supratim Bhattacharjee
Sundarbans, the Wrath of the Ocean
Günter Köck
High Arctic
Christin Gerstorfer
That one breath: Take a deep breath
200 years of photography
Anna Atkins, Sir Brian May & Denis Pellerin & Paula Richardson Fleming, Robert Capa.
Camera Obscura
Niederösterreichische Berufsfotografie
Anna Atkins
Cyanotypes
Robert Capa
Close Enough
In addition, there are
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 Warsaw, where we will be presenting the Global Peace Photo Award.