New Showcase Austria: an extraordinary selection of professionals and companies working in advertising production.

Welcome to our latest edition of Showcase Austria, which features the exceptional talent and services within the Austrian commercial creative industry. This issue highlights the work of renowned photographers, production companies, artists representatives and rental studios.

Zara found the perfect background for its winter Kids collection in the Austrian Alps; Calzedonia combined stills and motion thanks to an amazing team of creatives, and we feature three top-tier studios, two in the heart of Vienna, the third strategically located in Graz.

Our featured editorial was captured by Violetta König and is part of her 'Inner Shore' editorial: a great example of the excellence of Austrian creativity. Further discover outstanding creatives in our extensive Austria Directory and past issues of Showcase Austria.

Explore the lively cultural offerings of Vienna and other Austrian cities, and be sure to discover the exciting events we recommend:

In 2024, three museums host exhibitions of works by the Austrian photographer Elfriede Mejchar. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is collaborating with the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich and the Wien Museum to honor the artist’s work and will present the artist’s portraits.

VIENNA SHORTS 2024 will present 306 films from 67 countries on the program. From youth programs to animation delights to provocative genre cinema. From 28th May to 2nd June.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading production companies, photographers, directors, studios and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Austria Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including McDonald's, Milka, Stern Magazine, Zanier, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• For an entire month, ninety program partners will participate in the tenth edition of FOTO WIEN 2023. During the month, Vienna is hosting a festival of visual media, with exhibitions, presentations, and special events held all over the city. This year FOTO WIEN will focus on the subject 'Photography Lies'.
• Inge Morath: Wo ich Farbe sehe / Where I See Color - For her 100th Birthday. Magnum Photographer Inge Morath has become famous for her impressive black and white portrait photographs and reportages of large cultural areas. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, FOTOHOF in Salzburg is showing an exhibition of her color works for the first time.

Our cover image was shot by Patrick Saringer.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, production companies, studios and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Austria Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Weight Watchers, Austrian Post AG, YETI, ViennaLab, Stadt Wien, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Ernst Haas - The Art of Seeing. Until 12th February. In this comprehensive exhibition, WestLicht presents around 120 works from all creative periods of the exceptional Viennese photographer.
• Samuel Fosso is one of Africa’s most renowned photographic artists. He has given a new twist to West Africa’s long-standing traditions of studio photography by developing and successively refining an individual form of explicitly theatrical self-portraiture that is both personal and political. At Mönchsberg, Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, until 10th April.

Our cover image was shot by Robert Maybach.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, production companies, studios and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Austria Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Milka, Unimarkt, Jeep, Dr. Oetker and Ortovox, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Vienna Shorts opens today, and it makes around 300 films from all over the world accessible to the audience and the international industry in the best possible way – whether in the cinema or in the museum, whether in digital or virtual space. Until 30th May (on site) and 30th June (online).
• Rudi Frey: Professione: Reporter opens 2nd June at Fotohof, Salzburg. Rudi Frey photography documents the "golden era" of Photojournalism. This exhibition includes images from the years he spent in the USSR, the Solidarnosc movement in Poland or portraits of Roland Reagan.

Our cover image was shot by Vienna-based, Ukraine-born Olesya Parfenyuk.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, location services and scouts, studios and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Alcena, Catastini, Eisenberger. Exhibition by three contemporary photographers. Until 20th November at OstLicht Gallery, Vienna. 
• Vienna Art Week. The festival, which takes place for the 17th time, gives insights into Viennese art production alongside around 50 program partners and will be offering a varied choice of events to enjoy. From 12th to 19th November. 
• 100 years of Burgenland. In 2021 Burgenland will celebrate 100 years of being part of Austria. To mark the occasion, WestLicht will present a photographic journey into its eventful history. From 24th November 2021 to 30th January 2022. 

Our cover image was shot by Irina Gavrich, represented by PPM Foto.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, talent agents, studios and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Calzedonia, REWE, Erich Fend, AGM, Monocle Magazine, Unimarkt, Fashion20Two Magazine, and Ewe Küchen, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• The Essl Collection – Photography. Until 5th of April at Albertina Museum, Vienna. 
• Padhi Frieberger Fotokunst 1950-2000. Until 18th of April at Westlicht Museum for Photography, Vienna. 
• Elliot Erwitt - Paris. Until 24th April at Ostlicht, Vienna. 

Our cover image was shot by Susanne Spiel. 

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, talent agents, studios and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Salamander, Land Rover, Erste Bank, Calzedonia, EGGER, REWE/Merkur, Swareflex, Raiffeisen, Tullamore Dew, and Techno Alpin among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended event:

• In the exhibition PING PONG #3 at OstLicht Gallery, artists Anna Breit and Luisa Hübner enter into a visual dialogue on the subject of the body. Following the rule of the game, each of them responding to a photo of the other with their own, the two throw the ball at each other over a period of ten weeks. The result of this artistic exchange is a series of 52 pictures.

Our cover image was shot by Philipp Jelenska. 

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, talent agents, studios and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Mango, Dr. Oetker, L'Officiel, Unimarkt, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and Gusto Magazine among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• The ORF Long Night of Museums 2019. Around 700 museums and galleries all across Austria open on October 5th from 6 pm to 1 am. 
• World Press Photo - until 20th October at Westlicht, Vienna.

Our cover image was shot by Wolfgang Bohusch.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, photo production companies, talent agents, and equipment rental companies working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications including Volkswagen, YSL, Adidas, Karl Lagerfeld, Calzedonia, McDonald's, Wien Tourismus, Dr. Oetker, Goldeck, Salamander, Unimarkt, Wiener Zucker and Tezenis, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• FOTO WIEN - Month of Photography, until 20th April in Vienna. 
• RELOADED - exhibition presenting a broad spectrum of the history of the photographic medium. YOUNG EDITIONS features work from emerging photographers. OstLicht, Vienna. 

Our cover image was shot by Rafaela Proell. 

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photo and film production companies, photographers, photo agents, photo post-production companies and equipment rentals, working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications, including Oysho, Austrian Airlines, Wallpaper Magazine, Caritas, Stadt Wien, LIWEST, Traser, Globus, Birkenstock, HERE Magazine, and Merrell, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• World Press Photo 2018 - until 21st October at Westlicht, Vienna. 
• The ORF Long Night of Museums 2018. Around 700 museums and galleries all across Austria open on October 6th from 6 pm to 1 am. 
• Camera Austria International. Laboratory for Photography and Theory. An exhibition exploring Camera Austria's influence on Austrian photography. From 24th November to 3rd March 2019 at Museum der Moderne Salzburg. 

Our cover image was shot by Joachim Haslinger. 

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, photo agents, stylists, illustrators and equipment rentals, working out of Austria.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Brands and publications, including Red Bull, Austrian Airlines, Coca-Cola, Ikea Food, ÖBB, Aldi, Wien Tourismus, Evian, Bank Austria, and Gusto, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Photography exhibitions by August Sander and Hanna Putz, analysing society. Until 20th May at WestLicht, Vienna. 
• Tom Jakobi Awakening - photography exhibition. Until 26th May at OstLicht. Gallery for Photography, Vienna. 
• Man Ray exhibition, featuring his works from across various disciplines, including, photography, film, collage, typography and more. Until 24th June at Kunstforum, Vienna. 
• Austria: Photography 1970-2000, until 1st July and I-Photo: Japanese Photography 1960-1970 from the Collection, from 21st April to 8th July, at Museum der Moderne Salzburg. 

Our cover image was shot by Verena Mandragora, styling - Guy Debast. 

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, post production companies, equipment and studio rentals and illustrators currently working out of Austria. 

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Companies including Citroën, Austrian Airlines, McDonald's, C&A, BMW, Campari, Raiffeisenbank, Landrover and Bank Austria, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

• World Press Photo 2017 exhibition, until 22nd October at Westlicht, Vienna. 
• The Picturebook of Elizaveta Porodina - photography exhibition, from 11th October to 16th December at OstLicht Gallery, Vienna. 
• Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, from 19th October to 2nd November. 
• Per-Anders Pettersson – African Catwalk, photo exhibition presenting Africa's fashion scene, from 19th October to 13th January 2018 at Leica Galerie Wien.

Our cover image was shot by Susanne Stemmer. Digital environment by Friendly Fire. 

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, illustrators, equipment rental, location and prop companies for photo and film production currently working out of Austria.

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Companies including Volkswagen, Vanity Teen, Schoellerbank, LaudaMotion GmbH, Von Köck, Figlmüller - Daily Roast, 74 Magazine, EGGER Holz and Wiberg, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

• Wiener Filmball 2017, 24th March at Wiener Rathaus, Vienna. 
• Alfons Schilling. Beyond Photography. An exhibition of expanded photography featuring experimental work, holograms, steriophotography, film and paintings. Until 14th May at Westlicht, Vienna.

Our cover image was shot by Gerhard Merzeder, represented by Weinper.

Welcome to Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers currently working out of Austria, including Christian Vorhofer, Dieter Brasch, Friedrich Jansenberger, Lukas Kirchgasser, Mitja Kobal, Mona Lorenz, Oliver Topf, PG Studios, Studio Huger and Ronnie Boehm; photo agent Karin Zumann Photographers Agency; illustrators agent carolineseidler.com; illustrator Denis Mujakovic; photo production company and talent agent Making Of; styling, hair and make-up agent MAD LIONS ARTISTS and equipment rental company DIGITALSTORE. 

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our Vienna Photo and Film directories.

Companies including Austrian Airlines, Marie Claire, Greenpeace, McDonald's, Schön! Magazine, Volksbank, Seitenblicke Magazine, Nadine, Austrias Next Topmodel and Raiffeisen Bank among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

• Nobuyoshi Araki/Love by Leica - photography exhibition, from 27th May to 3rd September at Leica Galerie, Vienna. 
• Anniversary Panorama of Photographic History and World Events - exhibition from 30th May to 10th June and auction on 10th June, at Westlicht, Vienna.
• VIFF 2016 - Vienna Independent Film Festival - from 4th to 7th July. 

Our cover image was shot by Luise Hannah Reichert. 

Welcome to the latest Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. In this issue we feature the latest campaigns for BBC, Red Bull, Samsung, ING DiBa, Accor Hotels, Greenpeace, Dr. Oetker Österreich, Stadt Wien, Goessl, Casinos Austria, Campari, Globetrotter Travel Guide, HBD, and many more.

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film productions in our Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• blickfang Vienna - International Design Exhibition, from 30th October to 1st November at the MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst.
• Cora Pongracz - Austrian Avantgarde of the 1970s, until 21st November at OstLicht Galerie für Fotografie.
• Destination Vienna 2015, an exhibition featuring over 70 works of contemporary art, until 31st May. 

Our cover image entitled 'The Burden', was shot by Kurt Salhofer.

Welcome to the latest Showcase Austria, brought to you by Production Paradise. In this issue we feature the latest campaigns for Samsung, BBC, Red Bull, Mercedes-Benz, LOVEFMD, Globetrotter, Be Styled, Wiesenthal, Bayer, SPORTMAGAZIN, Baumax Frühjahr and many more.

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film productions in our Photo and Film directories.

Check out our recomended events:

• Destination Vienna 2015 - an exhibition with more than 70 positions of contemporary art, until 31st May. 
• Ren Hang photogrpahy exhibition, until 25th June.
• Westlicht Photo Auction, from 1st to 12th June.

Our cover image was shot by Marcel Koehler.