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| © Karen Knorr / Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo |
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| HYMN TO THE EARTH |
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Baden near Vienna:
1 June - 30 September 2019
Opening weekend:
Friday 14 June until Sunday 16 June, 2019
In addition to the impressive pictures in the parks, gardens and alleyways of Baden near Vienna, the photo festival also offers an exciting side program with guided tours, workshops and lectures.
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Europe’s largest photographic festival is coming to Baden near Vienna for the second time. Under the motto HYMN TO THE EARTH, esteemed international photographers will exhibit fascinating visual worlds in a gigantic open-air gallery: 39 exhibitions with 2,000 large-format images—each up to 280 square meters in size—will transform the gardens, lanes and squares of Baden for four months and across 7-kilometres, into a "picture-city".
An exciting premiere for Baden is the guest presence of World Press Photo. Presenting Iconic Images, this exhibition is exclusively curated for Baden’s festival and showcases the legacy of the world’s finest photojournalists. Alongside Iconic Images the exhibition, Die Beziehung des Menschen zu seiner Umwelt (The Relationship Between People and their Environment) presents a "Best of" from the Leica Oskar Barnack Awards 2018. |
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© Charlie Cole, USA, Newsweek, World Press Photo of the Year winner, 1989 / Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo |
© Max Pinckers, Leica Oskar Barnack Awards 2018 /
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Baden Becomes a World Stage
"Our public spaces are now value-added thanks to the photographic excellence" was how a Baden citizen expressed her enthusiasm for last year’s festival and gets to the heart of its achievements. Following on from last year’s successful I LOVE AFRICA is this year’s HYMN TO THE EARTH – on show from June 1 to September 30, 2019. The 7-kilometre open-air gallery extends from the visitor centre on Brusattiplatz in two circuits through Baden's old town centre, including through Doblhoffpark, Gutenbrunner Park and Kurpark.
On the occasion of Baden’s partner festival La Gacilly’s 15th birthday, the curators chose THE WORLD as the theme to represent this year’s festival. Here contemporary photography illustrates the state of our earth, its unique beauty as well as the dangers that threaten the Blue Planet and humanity. |
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| © Thomas Pesquet / © ESA/NASA / Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo |
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| The festival’s photographic images range from Thomas Pesquet's impressions of the Earth, which he orbited as an astronaut for 196 days in the International Space Station ISS, to Spike Walker's million-fold magnifications of life, as seen under the microscope. Across four cycles the entire programme showcases an enthralling pictorial narrative that oscillates between solemn tribute and concern – a hymn to the earth; the poetry of nature; humankind and nature; the threatened planet. "From my spaceship, I had the best possible vantage point to observe the earth," says Thomas Pesquet enthusiastically, "its beauty and treasures, but also its vulnerability." |
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| © Spike Walker / Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo |
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The Festival la Gacilly-Baden Photo 2019 encourages harmonious living, a peaceful, open attitude towards others, a mindful lifestyle and a social economic model – it astonishes and gives us hope. The festival represents humanity’s desire for peace and does so through artistic and photographic renditions of the world’s pressing environmental concerns alongside celebrations of its beauty. |
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| © Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison / Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo |
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How it all Began and the Future Vision
Jacques Rocher, the current chair of The Yves Rocher Foundation, established this annual photography festival in 2004 in his native village, La Gacilly in Brittany. It has become not only a mecca for photographic art and photojournalism but also an annual pilgrimage for hundreds of thousands of visitors. In 2018 and upon the initiative of photographer and publisher Lois Lammerhuber, the cooperation with Baden near Vienna was born. Alone at the festival’s premiere in Baden, 190,000 visitors were inspired by outstanding photography. The La Gacilly-Baden festival, with its two locations, La Gacilly in Brittany, and Baden near Vienna, is the first pan-European photo festival and, together with more than half a million visitors, the largest open-air festival in Europe. |
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| © Fausto Podavini / Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo |
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| The festival catalogue is published by Edition Lammerhuber; German/English; 17 x 23 cm; 260 pages; softcover; 14,90 Euro.. |
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Cyril Drouhet, Florence Drouhet, Lois Lammerhuber Preface:
Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Stefan Szirucsek, Jacques Rocher 18 x 24 cm, 260 pages, 148 photos German, English
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