“The whole world is a picture”, writes Austrian photographer Paul Albert Leitner in the first line of this “novel” in photographs. A remarkable grab bag of images – from bucolic nature to a discarded Christmas tree, construction debris to the creamy thighs of a female nude, slick fashion shots to gritty urban scenes – come together to describe the artist’s world.Gerald Matt writes: “An old lady observes. A monkey copulates. They are happy in Berlin … In Paris they meet Santa Claus who gives them his garter belt. The Daiquiri tastes like a glacier and they cite Hemingway in Havana.”

Paul Albert Leitner, *1957 in Jenbach, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna.