| | | |  | | | | Exhibition: Sebastião Salgado "Amazonia" | | | | | | Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo 2024
attracted a record number of visitors | | | 320,461 visitors
46 artist talks, workshops and portfolio reviews
97 art education tours
7.5 million euros of economic value added
723 reports on TV, radio and in newspapers | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Brent Stirton is speaking about his exhibition "Pantanal: an Endangered Eden“ | | | | | | NATURAL HERITAGE – A topic that has long been at the heart of our festival, and one that is an appeal to the world. The festival not only united some of the best photographers in the world, but also attracted a record number of visitors.
At midnight on Sunday, 13 October 2024, the La Gacilly-Baden Photo 2024 festival came to an end. 320,491 visitors enjoyed photographic art and garden art in the World Heritage city of Baden near Vienna. This makes the festival not only the largest Franco-Austrian cultural event, but also, in cooperation with the exhibition partners La Gacilly in Brittany, the Garten Tulln and the Month of Photography in Bratislava, by far the largest open-air photo exhibition in Europe: 1,612 photographs have been on display in 38 exhibitions, spread over 7 kilometres.
"The record number of visitors to the La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival in 2024, now in its seventh year, confirms the substantive and artistic significance of this creative and photojournalistic initiative. The photo festival has provided strong impetus both in Lower Austria and beyond our federal state borders," Governor of Lower Austria Johanna Mikl-Leitner summarises her impressions. | | | | | |  | | | | Picnic at the exhibition „The Voices of the Water" of David Doubilet | | | | | | "Humanity has opened the gates of hell," warned Secretary-General António Guterres in an impassioned speech on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2023. "Our concern is that all climate action will be dwarfed by the scale of the challenge."
"These words remind us of our duty to preserve the poetry of creation for our children," comments Festival Director Lois Lammerhuber on the magnitude of the task at hand. "With the help of photo documentaries, we have tried to provide food for thought, if not solutions, on the fundamental issues of urbanisation, biodiversity, natural resources, pollution and global warming. That is why, in our seventh year of the festival, we showed the work of the great masters of environmental photography: Nazli Abbaspour, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Yasuhoshi Chiba, Joana Choumali, David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes, Hans Hass, Nadia Ferroukhi, Sacha Goldberger, Richard Ladkani, Lucas Lenci, Luca Locatelli, Pascal Maitre, Beth Moon, Maxime Riché, Sebastião Salgado, Alain Schroeder, Vee Speers, Brent Stirton, Lorraine Turci, David Turnley, Peter Turnley and Cássio Vasconcellos." | | | | | |  | | | Presentation of the Lammerhuber Award for Lifetime Achievement to Martin Parr
by Christian Einfalt, Andréa Holzherr, Silvia Lammerhuber and Lois Lammerhuber | | | | | | "We have the choice to use the gift of our lives to make the world a better place," Jane Goodall is convinced. British photographer Martin Parr certainly shares this spirit of preserving rays of hope in humanity, and the festival honoured him with the first Lammerhuber Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The pictures of Italian photographer Luigi Caputos told of the magical world of the Salzburg Festival, a world of magical transformations full of graceful beauty and fairytale elegance. And Tyrolean scientist and photographer Norbert Span showed us in his pictures why snow crystals are the "jewels of the sky". | | | | | |  | | | | Exhibition: Martin Parr „The Chronicler" | | | | | | A very special visual highlight was the exhibition in Rathausgasse, "The Human Footprint", with pictures taken from orbit and edited by Gerald Mansberger and Markus Eisl. A real crowd-puller.
Under the guiding principle of a Culture of Solidarity, the collaboration with the festival partners Garten Tulln and Month of Photography Bratislava was continued. | | | | | |  | | | | Brent Stirton is speaking about his exhibition "Pantanal: an Endangered Eden“ | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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