“21 Reportagen” features protagonists of Austrian photography – in images and text. The focus here is on the exciting and highly diverging personalities of the artists themselves, who normally withdraw behind their works. We see them at work in the laboratory, on a set or in the archives, preparing for exhibitions, but also reflecting on where their own roots lie. We meet them in the kitchen, the lecture hall or the garage workshop

Indeed, what happens outside their sphere of artistic creativity, when the camera itself is no longer the focal point, when light boxes and pin boards, computer screens and archive boxes dominate the scene, when sewing kits and newspaper ads are closer to hand than the darkroom? How many roles do artists actually play at any given time?

Nora Schoeller and Ruth Horak provide a new and exciting unconventional approach to the notoriously under-publicised “Austrian history of photography”.