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BIFA 2023

The Great Escape

  • Photographer
    Enrico Markus Essl

The feeling of making the great escape has often been in my thoughts during the past 2 years of the pandemic. To visualize this was of course also the goal of my photographic work and have contributed very, to the mastering of these difficult times for all of us. Despite all the adversities and restrictions that the pandemic brought with it, I was always motivated to enter the urban space. In the same way, I also wanted to escape into solitude to stake out my spaces just for me. Not necessarily empty streets and people hidden under masks I wanted to photograph, but people and scenes that speak

Born in Linz (Upper Austria), grown up in Salzburg now back, living and working in Linz. Since my early childhood I have been interested in photography. I detected street photography for myself and it's been haunting me until this day. The urban jungle of cities, the people living there, the crucial moments and the endless trips through the streets and places are stirring my desire to capture moments. I work with Leica Cameras.