Book Presentation
Elias Holzknecht: Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf
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Elias Holzknecht: Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf
Book Presentation and Artist Talk with Ulrich Ermann
28.1.2025, 6 p.m.
Exhibition space Camera Austria
In German language
Free admission
Intro
A folding map of Upper Austria marked with notes led Elias Holzknecht to the town of Micheldorf for the first time in 2021, where he has since traveled several times to photograph the people there and their everyday lives. He quickly realized that the seemingly ordinary allows deeper insights into regional and social structures. Interested in the ambiguity of such places, alongside Micheldorf in Upper Austria he visited three other villages of the same name, driven by the question of how to record a place that cannot be reduced to a single narrative.
On this basis, the photographer developed a conceptual approach for Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf, published by The Eriskay Connection (NL) in 2024. Three versions of the same book were created, presenting images and texts in alternating sequences, dissolving the impression of a linear narrative in the representation of diverse (cultural) landscapes in Austria and their populations.
Together with the human geographer Ulrich Ermann and the editor June Drevet, Elias Holzknecht looks at the role of photography as a medium for constructing a narrative. The three will also talk about the human-geography perspective on regions and their inhabitants, as well as the significance of rural spaces in photographic discourse.
Elias Holzknecht (b. 1993 in Tyrol, AT) is a photographer and lives in Graz (AT). He studied photojournalism and documentary photography in Hanover (DE) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent (BE). His photographic interests include social and geopolitical issues, and he is a founding member of the What’s left of Photography community. Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf was published in 2024 by The Eriskay Connection (NL) and was first presented at Fotohaus ParisBerlin>fotogroup at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2024.
Ulrich Ermann has been a professor of human geography in the Department of Geography and Regional Sciences at the University of Graz (AT) since 2012. His research and teaching activity focuses on economic geography, cultural geography, and regional geography. He researches how goods and markets, as well as places and regions, are produced performatively—including in the context of agriculture, food and consumption, work and rural regional development.