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“Neighbours” started with a few observations: although I am living in Vienna for nearly twenty years, I have yet to make one immigrant friend. Every circle I ever entered was full of white middle class people.Then, ten years ago I moved into a traditional working class district of Vienna. When leaving my flat, I enter […] The post – Neighbours first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
a snow based tourism industry as a metaphor. comes with a 17 mins video, embroidery and a longish essay. 2026. The post – ALPS (working title) first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
A few hundred meters behind Vienna’s beloved giant wheel, ducked away between a zombie house and a sausage booth stands a minor wheel – but it is by no means lesser for those who ride it. It is called Tagada and it is a Viennese institution. For decades the Tagada has been drawing crowds of […] The post – Tagada first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
As long as I can remember, the Austrian Armed Forces have been the neglected child of domestic politics. Unloved, underfunded, and largely ignored, they have led a shadowy existence in dozens of barracks across the country. Surrounded by NATO member states, neutral Austria felt secure for a long time, and the military gradually assumed the […] The post – Unser Heer first appeared on florian…
The architects, theorists and activists Carina Sacher and Lukas Veijnik asked me to document the ongoings in Vienna’s community colleges, as they were writing a book on the topic. It was published by Album Verlag in december 2025 and features a selection of the following images (and others). „Untrennbar mit der Geschichte des Roten Wien ist der […] The post – VHS first appeared on florian rainer,…
Portraits taken in the last few years for various printed media clients. I love this job. The post – Portraits first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
jtown, 2019. The post – Terra Sancta first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
The first days of the Russian assault on Ukraine saw an unprecedented movement of people displaced by war. Hundreds of thousands of women and children as well as countless people from the global south who lived in Ukraine to work or study crossed into Poland and its southern neighbours on a daily basis. It seemed […] The post – Exodus first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
„On the way back from the volcano it starts to snow. The sound is the same. The effect is the same. All is covered with a black layer of ash. It depends on the direction of the wind where it snows. Closer to the volcano it rather feels and sounds like rain. The Palmeros are […] The post – El Volcan first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
When Ulrich Seidl asked me if I wanted to roam around his set in Italy and Romania I was stoked. His movies Hundstage and ImportExport were a heavy inspiration for my way to look at the world, and Wolfgang Thaler’s cinematography certainly had a fair share of shaping my view as well. To see how […] The post – Seidlworld first appeared on florian rainer, photographer. .
