Description
Since its inception, the La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival has been committed to placing nature, which gives us life, at the centre of its exhibitions. Photographic narratives describe the beauty of our planet Earth as well as its environmental problems.
Australia, almost a hundred times the size of Austria, has a population of barely 26 million. Australian photographers are ambassadors for the beauty of a unique continent that must be preserved. They love their country so much that they even denounce its flaws with poetry, using a visual style that overflows with creativity. Their works explore themes of identity and the environment, moving between drama, black humour, fiction and reality: Matthew Abbot, Narelle Autio, Tamara Dean, Adam Ferguson, Bobby Lockyer, Trent Parke, Anne Zahalka and Viviane Dalles.
In the New World, we encounter the work of Louise Johns and Joel Meyerowitz in the USA. Mitch Dobrowners’ photographs are testimonies to the apocalypse of extreme weather phenomena. George Steinmetz answers the question of whether the world will be able to feed 10 billion people with his magnum opus “Feed The Planet”. Alessandro Cinque presents his long-term work on the consequences of mining in the Andean states. With Ulla Lohmann, we travel to volcanic peoples in Papua New Guinea. And Gaël Turine takes us to the sacred forests of Benin, where voodoo gods are considered the true guardians of biodiversity.
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 Burkardhas 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 The Railway Through the Ages, 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.
