(To see details of the image, please click on ‘captions’ placed bottom right of the slide show)
Salzburg’s architectural setting is unique, world famous and captured on innumerable photographs. However, despite an overpowering flood of pictures, it never really reflects the city’s true face: truth is, only inhabitants determine the real scape of a settlement, lending a place with personalised, unmistakable character. Salzburg is Austria’s regional capital with a population of only a 140,000 and probably the highest percentage of foreigners. Its population comprises of people from nearly 192 countries.
To document diverse faces of the city, 124 citizens of these nations were asked to face the camera, not only to tell their own story, but also to illustrate the city’s multiplicity and peculiarity. A gallery of faces here invites you for a stroll along the city where these people were met with and photographed; Apart from a photo exhibition these images have also been displayed in forms of a book and installations around the city of Salzburg. Along with Anja Hitzenberger, a Salzburgerin by birth and now a photographer from New York, we split our subjects and created a view, an interplay, between a local and a global perspective. This particular gallery show is my side of the story. Needless to say, this has been one of the most overwhelming and inspiring projects of my life.
‘Portraits of a City’ opened on Thursday, July 8, 2010 and is on display by the banks of the river Salzach until July 25 in Salzburg, Austria
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For more images of Salzburg during my visit, please click here