Great Past, Great Future: The Albertina's 250th Anniversary Exhibition, Explained
How Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen built the Albertina's collection. A 250-year history of Vienna's greatest museums.
Michael Seirer Photography – Event- und Brandingfotograf in Wien
Michael Seirer – professionelle Fotografie für Kulturinstitutionen, Unternehmen und Veranstaltungen in Wien. Vernissagen, Portraits, Architektur und Reportagen.
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Inside the Amalienbad: 100 Years of a Working-Class Utopia
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN's exhibition: Michael Rathmayr photographs 100 years of Amalienbad – Art Déco working-class utopia, rebuilt 1926.
Maria Alyokhina at WestLicht: A Punk Prayer Among the Portraits of Power
Maria Alyokhina reads from her memoir at WestLicht's Platon exhibition – Pussy Riot co-founder among portraits of world leaders.
Frankstahls Steel - From Monochrome to Color
Frankstahl steel wholesaler: photographing pipes, beams, industrial halls reveals unexpected visual beauty beyond grey metal warehouses.
Don McCullin in Vienna: 60 Years of War, Famine, and the Long Walk Home
Don McCullin at 90 at Leica Gallery Vienna: 60 years of war photography, then silent Somerset ponds – “Life, Death and Everything in Between”.
How I Use AI in My Photography - An Honest List of What It Does to Your Photos
Complete list of AI tasks in photography: where it helps, how it works, what happens to your photos and data – transparent about real uses.
Outside Heteronormative Walls: A Museum Tour on Seeing Differently
Queer Through the Museum: Albertina's Pride Month tours deconstruct artworks outside heteronormative assumptions – new ways of seeing.
Two venues, 56 artists, one night to deliver: Shooting "Lebt und arbeitet in Wien"
56 artists, 130+ works across MuseumsQuartier and Karlsplatz – photography of Kunsthalle Wien's biggest contemporary art survey.
Slowing Down in Bari with old Nikon Glass
Travel photography with vintage 28mm glass in Bari – minimal approach shows how constraints breed refinement over technique.
Photographing KAWS Art & Comix at Albertina Modern Wien 2026
KAWS. Art & Comix at Albertina Modern Wien: 192 works across 27 historical and contemporary artist positions, April 3 – September 27, 2026.
Calm Wins in a Noisy Genre - 15. Leica Street Photo Contest
Street photography: 12,000 photos from 103 countries competing – 15. Leica Street Photo Contest showcases honest, unedited work.
Annegret Soltau and the Art of Not Looking Away
Annegret Soltau's retrospective at Francisco Carolinum Linz: body art without apologies, feminist visual language, 50 years of raw vulnerability.
Leaning Closer to Feel the Photographer's Choice - Tanzbild exhibition at Albertina
Dance photography from the 1860s to 1940s – Tanzbild exhibition at Albertina Modern showcases 120 photographs from the collection.
The Francisco Carolinum's Photography Exhibition Has a Clickbait Title - But
Some Secrets of Photography: Francisco Carolinum in Linz explores conceptual approaches by six artists around photography's 200th anniversary.
The Most Expensive Free Photos You'll Ever Take
Why hiring a photographer beats getting free event photos: real networking, quality assets – not 400 photos nobody will ever open.
Something Fishy (In the Best Way): “Under Water” Exhibition at WestLicht
Under Water exhibition at WestLicht: 500 at opening, no clichéd coral reef shots – photographer Peter Coeln's passion project redefines underwater work.
Dealing in Splendour - When Art Was Always About the Money
Art as business: Forchondt family dealers in the 1600s to modern times – exhibition on the European art market's roots.
The Pixels Were Never the Point
Sam Altman on why AI-generated art loses its value once viewers know it is AI – and what that leaves photographers selling: intent, not pixels.
Kafka Before Kafka: When Two Men Tried to Talk and Everything Fell Apart
First Austrian staging of Kafka's “Beschreibung eines Kampfes” (Description of a Struggle) – 70 minutes, no escape, only two performances.
From Vernissage to Archive: Why Your Exhibition Needs Professional Documentation
Exhibition runs three months, photos last thirty years – professional documentation serves press today, archives tomorrow.
Your Photos Are Missing Something: A Metadata Fix for Exported Images (PowerShell)
Batch-process metadata for exported JPGs with PowerShell. Apply copyright, creator, and website URL retroactively to gallery images.
If You're Not Close Enough, You're Not Bruce Gilden (Exhibition at Westlicht)
Bruce Gilden at 79 – legendary Magnum photographer who gets closer than most dare, guided by Robert Capa's principle of proximity.
The Invisible Art of Theater Photography: What you learn behind the curtain
Theater photography captures fleeting moments while remaining invisible to the performance – learn the paradox of proximity that defines this craft.
Staring at Strangers in Black and White: Experiencing the Vienna Vintage Photo Fair
Vienna Vintage Photo Fair 2025 at WestLicht: one-day event for vintage photographs, photobooks, negatives – curated dealers, collectors, archives.
I Went to VIECC 2025 and All I Got Were Amazing Photos (and Sore Feet)
Vienna ComicCon 2025: fandom culture and creative community – photography of PAN book stage readings and author interviews.
One Script to Delete Them All: Clean up Lightroom Preview Catalogs using PowerShell
Lightroom catalogs per shoot create accumulating preview folders that waste space. How to safely delete old Previews.lrdata using PowerShell.
Slowing down in Marseille with Old Nikon Glass
Marseille street photography with vintage Nikon glass: Nikon Z6II with 28mm E-Series lens – no autofocus, no electronics, just glass and sensor.
Catch “Motion” While You Can - A Limited-Time Exhibition by Leica
Leitz Photographica Auction centenary “Motion” exhibition: photographs reflecting dynamic shifts in society, auction October 30 at Leica Gallery.
Kit Young: Urban Pulse and Scottish Solitude at G99 Gallery
Kit Young's photography at G99 Gallery Wien during FOTO WIEN: hand-made silver gelatin prints from Paris streets and Scottish landscapes.
The Medieval Roots of Emotion in Modern Art - "Gothic Modern" exhibition at
Modern artists looked backward for expression – Gothic Modern shows how medieval spirituality inspired contemporary emotional work.
Zooming Through History: A Tour of ‘A Century in Pictures. Austria 1925–2025’
100 years of Austrian life in photographs: politics, culture, crisis and celebration – history compressed visually.
From Streets to Silence: The Early Experiments of Mimmo Jodice
Mimmo Jodice retrospective in Udine Castle: 140 images spanning 1964–2015 – from street photography to metaphysical place-portraits.
Spaces of Time: Julia Gaisbacher photographs Hanne Darboven’s World
Julia Gaisbacher's photobook Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg explores the artist's mental universe and physical spaces – Hatje Cantz 2025.
Forget the Ropes and Look Closer at Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki beyond provocation: diarist of existence, documenting four decades of love, death, and everyday beauty.
Magnum Decoded: A Deep Dive into the Agency’s Visual Legacy (book review)
Behind-the-scenes Magnum agency history: workflows in the analog era, founding ideas, and why it remains photography's standard.
I spy with a curious eye… Watch! Watch! Watch! Henri Cartier-Bresson at Foto
Henri Cartier-Bresson retrospective Watch Watch Watch at FOTO ARSENAL Vienna: 240 original prints from the 20th century's most influential photographer.
Is Seiland the better Meyerowitz? … and why Seiland Deserves a Closer Look
Alfred Seiland vs. Joel Meyerowitz: A comparison of photographic method, precision, and quiet obsession with landscape photography.
Color Me Dizzy: Hirst's Spin on Modern Art at Albertina Modern
Damien Hirst – Drawings at Albertina Modern Vienna – first comprehensive exhibition of the artist's works on paper, May to October 2025.
Exhibition “Life Lines” - A Layer at a Time
Life Lines by famiglia_vienna – linocut prints exploring tension between control and chaos, intention and accident in personal narratives.
How I Freed the Stuck Blades of a Vintage Domiplan 2.8/50
Fixing a vintage Domiplan 2.8/50 lens with stuck aperture blades – a practical walkthrough of lens repair on a flea market find.
Grand Opening of the FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
Foto Arsenal Wien opens its doors – a new landmark for photography's history, craft, and future in Vienna's cultural landscape.
Dürer vs. Leonardo: Who Drew It Better? (Spoiler: They Both Did)
Albertina exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer – masters of light, shadow, and Renaissance drawing techniques compared.
A Silent Portrait of Spain - Ramón Masats - The Silent Photographer
Ramón Masats at Fundación Foto Colectania Barcelona – Spanish street photography and portraiture from an unsung documentary master.
Backstage at the Volkstheater Vienna
Behind the scenes at Volkstheater Wien – costumes, stage production, and the hidden world of theater documented during In Transition program.
Valie Export’s Photography: Blurring the Line Between Artist and Subject
Valie Export: Austrian conceptual artist using photography for performance and exploration – archive talk at Foto Arsenal Wien's In Transition.
How Matthew Wong Turns Solitude into Art: Wong/Van Gogh at Albertina
Matthew Wong at Albertina – self-taught painter inspired by Chinese ink and Van Gogh, vibrant yet melancholic works on solitude and color.
Line Runner 2024 - Die Sicherheitsstrategie - Dystopia Comes to Life
Theater piece by Stephanie Grünberger at Carla Mittersteig – totalitarian dystopia explored through multimedia collage and emotional extremes.
Rediscovering Early Photography of a Lost World: A Journey Through the Photographic Archives of NHM Vienna
Expedition into NHM Vienna's archives – 19th and 20th century glass plates uncovered through the In Transition program by Foto Arsenal Wien.
A Lifetime of Images: Rediscovering Elfie Semotan’s Vision
Studio visit with Elfie Semotan during Foto Arsenal's transition phase – conversation with Felix Hoffmann about decades of photographic vision.
Edit Smarter, Not Harder: Unlock Fine Adjustments with Lightroom’s Quick Develop Panel
Lightroom Quick Develop Panel – relative adjustments for batch editing photos with streamlined workflow and efficient sliders.