Austrian documentary photography
Austrian documentary photography
January 21, 2015
Susanne Jaksus - from „Happy Ending“, 2013
Helmut Steinecker's 'Tichá' is a South Bohemian border village just separated from his home – the Austrian village of Unterwald – by a forest-covered hill. There, behind the former iron curtain, in what is now the so-called green belt, he finds relics of close to half a century of a divided Europe.
Zara Pfeifer's analogue colour photography offers insight into the interior spaces of Alterlaa, a large council estate in Vienna, built in the seventies by Harry Glück.
Susanne Jakszu's work marks a border area where a photo documentary project moves towards photo reportage. Her 'Happy Ending' series deals with the sex tourism phenomenon in Pattaya close to Bangkok.
Christopher Mavric's 'Wildfremd - Straßenportraits aus Graz und Wien' series, which is also available as a book since January, is dedicated to the genre of street photography. In his portraits of Austrian people who move in urban spaces, everything is live and genuine.
Further information at: Fotohof
Susanne Jaksus - from „Happy Ending“, 2013
Christopher Mavric – Streetportrait, Graz 2013
Zara Pfeifer, WFC Schlemmereck, A Block, from the series "Du, meine konkrete Utopie", 2013
Helmut Steinecker - Houses in Tichá/Oppolz