Ich Bin Waldviertel
Long-Term Projects, first prize stories
August 14, 2017
Hannah and Alena watch TV with Anna and Isabel, two friends.
Hannah and Alena are two sisters who live in Merkenbrechts, a bioenergy village of around 170 inhabitants in Waldviertel, an isolated rural area of Austria, near the Czech border.
The girls have two older brothers, but spend much of their time together in a carefree life, swimming, playing outdoors and engrossed in games around the house. A bioenergy village is one which produces most of its own energy needs from local biomass and other renewable sources.
The photographer has been photographing Hannah and Alena since 2012. She visits them for a few weeks, usually at summertime, every year, watching them growing up and spending time together.
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Carla Kogelman
Netherlands
Carla Kogelman (b. 1961) has worked in the theatre industry for 25 years.
About the photographer
Carla Kogelman
Carla Kogelman (b. 1961) has worked in the theatre industry for 25 years.
Carla Kogelman (b. 1961) has worked in the theatre industry for 25 years.
In December 2011, she graduated at the Foto Academie Amsterdam. She was always interested in the stories backstage, the actors' stories instead of those being performed on stage. Her portrait series of actors backstage won first prize at the Zilveren Camera in 2011 and the Dutch national photography portfolio contest, the SO (Selection Of Dutch Photography) Awards, in 2013.
In 2012, she was commissioned by Szene Bunte Wähne, a youth theater festival in Austria, to make a documentary about the rural Waldviertel region.
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