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.
