Since 1980, the magazine Camera Austria International has been providing its readers with insights into important discourses on the role of photography as a medium and practice of contemporary art—presenting outstanding artists who have made extraordinary contributions to the continual development of the medium. The magazine is not primarily engaged with topicality but also makes materials available that, as part of long-term and sustainable discourse, also retains significance after the fact as source material. Over the years, this has resulted in an—at times surprising—archive and reference body on contemporary photography.

 

Still posed at the heart of this bilingual (ger./eng.) quarterly are the monographic contributions about artists whose work is decisive in defining a current perspective on photography. This is accompanied by the Forum section, which introduces—often in cooperation with curators, writers, or artists—remarkable positions by young international artists who are not yet well known but already display a unique profile. The profile of the magazine is rounded off by a tailored overview of current international exhibitions and recently published books.

Once a year, Camera Austria International departs from the classical structure of the magazine in order to invite artists to guest edit an issue of the magazine, and in this framework to probe a theme of artistic and theoretical focus.

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There is a consensus in relevant literature that archives are shaped just as much by what they do not tell—by gaps, omissions, and repressed aspects—as by the knowledge conveyed through the objects, writings, and visual materials they contain. Decolonial authors, in particular, have pointed out how existing power structures come to manifest in archives and in the selection mechanisms they are based on. Against this backdrop, Camera Austria International no. 175 is devoted to works that examine and shed current light on the lasting impact and afterlives of such archives.

Main Features
Maurin Dietrich: Onyeka Igwe
Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya
Daria Bona: Ramona Schacht

Forum
Vorgestellt von der Redaktion / Presented by the editors
Josefine Rauch, Anne Mocaër, Olga Stefatou & Yousef Shurrab, Joel Jimenez Jara, Bob Jones, Lisa Edi

Ausstellungen / Exhibitions
Ikram Abdulkadir – Moderna Museet, Malmö
61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – Various venues, Venice
Ali Cherri – Oakville Galleries, Ontario
A Kind of Paradise – Museum Rietberg, Zurich
9. Triennal of Photography Hamburg 2026 – Various venues, Hamburg
Éric Baudelaire – CCA Berlin
Maren Hassinger – BAMPFA – Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Ilit Azoulay – Villa Stuck, München
Passants parmi les pierres – fjk3; Thomas Demand – MAK Contemporary, Vienna
Annika Eriksson – Kunstverein München
Labouring Bodies – Museum Tinguely, Basel
Tohé Commaret – Spike Island, Bristol
Gabriele Stötzer – Gropius Bau, Berlin
Sozialreportage als Medienspektakel – Photoinstitut Bonartes, Wien
Franco Vaccari – Museion, Bolzano
Cyrill Lachauer – Kunstpalais – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Erlangen
Manifesta 16 Ruhr – Ehemalige Kirchen in Bochum, Duisburg, Essen, und Gelsenkirchen

Bücher / Books
Michał Łuczak, Extraction – Sun Archive, Wrocław 2026; Max Steckel, Schwarze Diamanten – Eigenverlag, Kattowitz, 1928
Lee Scratch Perry, Black Ark – Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich 2026
Wolfgang Ullrich, Memokratie – Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2026

Bibliothek / Library
Andreas Prinzing
Hayahisa Tomiyasu: TTP – MACK Books, London 2021

Re-Readings
Reinhard Braun, Marc Ries
Roland Barthes revisited

Nachrufe / Obituaries
Walter Moser
VALIE EXPORT (1940–2026)
Peter Pakesch
Elfie Semotan (1941–2026)