During her two-week stay in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Carinthia, the photographer was able to document a wide variety of plants and animals. Her declared aim was to depict the interrelationships that show how all biotopes and their creatures are interconnected and also dependent on the integrity of those habitats. She achieved this by analysing the different ecosystems of the national park and their unique inhabitants. In addition to the alpine ecosystems, she focussed on the moors and their disappearance.

Photo gallery [PDF]

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/jcapturingpictures/profilecard/?igsh=enU5bGxiajc3dGth

During her stay in the Hohe Tauern National Park, the author focussed on human intervention and its antithesis: the untouched. Because touch disenchants the status of untouchedness. She talks about marmots, which have almost lost their wildness because they have been fed by humans and have thus lost their natural shyness towards people, and the car park on the Pasterze, which was built as a natural consequence of economic circumstances in order to protect the surrounding, supposedly untouched nature.

Ein Parkhaus auf der Pasterze [PDF]

The young nature photographer spent two weeks in August in the natural surroundings of the Neusiedler See - Seewinkel National Park. The result is a photo series in which she experimented with the lighting conditions at different times of day. The focus was on photographing the wildlife of the national park. Macro shots reveal details that otherwise remain hidden to the human eye and as a patient observer she lets us participate in the hidden wildlife.

Photo gallery [PDF]

Untouched nature - a very broad term. What do we mean by untouched nature? During his project in the Donau-Auen National Park, the nature photographer had the idea of finding untouched nature on a small scale. 'We live in a world in which there are fewer and fewer large, unspoilt natural areas, and yet we constantly encounter untouched nature in our everyday lives - if only we look closely enough. Every animal and every plant contains a piece of unspoilt nature. He found this unspoilt nature and made it visible in the details of his photo series.

Photo gallery [PDF]

'Arriving in place and time and allowing the essence of the moment is what nature can teach us.' This mindfulness should be the guiding theme for my photography. It was under this premise that Alexander Koch realised his photographic project in the Gesäuse National Park. Using an analogue large-format camera and accompanying digital photography, he pleads for deceleration. In photography and in general. 'Photos with a large-format camera are not taken within seconds, but usually take a long time before the shutter can be released. It forces us to deal with time and place in a natural way. You spend a lot of time at the shooting locations by setting up the camera, selecting a location, measuring the exposure & Co and get to know the surroundings better through this alone.  And this should also be noticeable in the photos. It should be the viewer's very personal gateway to the national park. You've never seen the Gesäuse like this before.

Homepage:
www.alexkoch.at

For the two sisters, the untouched is often expressed through simplicity, silence and wideness. This is exactly what they captured and recorded photographically during their media scholarship in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Tyrol. Through their lens, they wanted to capture the quiet poetry and unspoilt beauty, which is deeply moving in its clarity and purity. Their aim was to immortalise the essential tranquillity and undisturbed essence of nature in images that invite others to immerse themselves in this unspoilt world.

Photo gallery [PDF]

Homepage: www.theresabrandstaetter.com

Instagram: @theresa_brandstaetter

With a lot of patience, the right instinct and the support of staff and rangers, the filmmaker was able to capture unique moments of nature in the Thayatal National Park. Otters, a family of beavers and the first successful breeding of white-tailed eagles in the Thayatal are just some of them. This extremely successful nature film shows the biodiversity of the national park through expressive shots of the animal world paired with the unspoilt sounds of the wilderness.

Camera&Editing: https://julianwipplinger.com

Music&Sound: https://www.mw-portfolio.net

During the media scholarship, the film sound recordist and journalist set out to listen carefully to her surroundings on hikes through the Kalkalpen National Park. Once she arrived in the Limestone Alps, one topic constantly and repeatedly came to the centre of attention - sometimes it almost sounded like a competition: who is louder, the sparrow or the air plane? Based on sound recordings full of aircraft emissions, a documentary-essayistic short film emerged on the question of acoustic intactness, on the interplay and interplay of civilisational and natural sounds and on the acoustic space that people occupy in the mountains, on the alpine pastures and in the forests.

Website:
https://lisapuc.com/

Filmmaker Vicky Maier and poetry slammer Pascal Simon wanted to focus on the haptic sense for their media scholarship in the Donau-Auen National Park - how can I touch nature without forcing myself on it? How can I be touched by nature? Does untouched nature even exist as soon as people move around in it? An interplay emerged between the strength of nature and the vulnerability of the Anthropocene. The sensations and reactions triggered by the interplay with nature were poetically translated into ‘Wandel, silbergrün fließend’ - spoken and in picture format.

Websites: www.vickymaier.com // www.pascalsimon.eu

The two filmmakers wanted to capture the beauty of nature in the Neusiedler See - Seewinkel National Park and create a profound resonance with their audience. In their short video, we follow a visitor exploring the national park. The film is intended to inspire people to appreciate and protect nature. The viewers are made to smile again and again.

Jan Köllges (Voiceover) - https://jankoellges.com/

Markus (DoP, Concept) - https://www.desertcut.com/

Sebastian (Camera, Concept, Edit) - https://www.sebastianandre.eu/

Creating added value for society - the film team started the project with this self-chosen mission. During the two weeks in the Gesäuse National Park, they wanted to work on the core topics that they had identified in the work of the national parks: Nature conservation and biodiversity, an unfolding of the animal and plant world. And to answer the question: Is it really the untouched nature of the Austrian national parks that touches people? They interviewed employees from the national parks and summarised their answers in three short videos: ‘National Parks’, ‘Tourism’ and ‘Nationalparks Austria Media Scholarship’.

Instagram:
@on.explore und @grammproductions

Homepage:
www.gramm-productions.com

‘Spontaneity is the soul of freedom’ - with this guiding principle and no special script, there was nothing to lose and everything to gain for the photographer in the Neusiedler See - Seewinkel National Park. Nature is inspiring enough, he told himself, and explored the national park on excursions and on his own. His photos offer a broad view into the world of the national park.

Instagram:
benj_rinner
https://www.instagram.com/benj_rinner/

The trio created short videos and text-image contributions about the Gesäuse National Park. The short videos ‘Trail Tails’ focus on people who have a connection to the national park. From visitors to biologists and national park directors, they talk about their work and experiences in the national park and what makes nature so worth protecting. The ‘static’ contributions focus on visitor-orientation and provide interesting information as well as beautiful insights.

Their reels can be found under the following links:

Barbara Bock - Botanikerin im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Burgi und Ernst - Ennstaler Hütte im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Christoph Unterberger - Kommunikation im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Reinhard Thaller - Ranger im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Agnes Strasser - Rangerin im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Besucher:innen im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Denise Reiter - Zoologin im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Herbert Wölger - Direktor im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Kathrin Stock - Infobüro im Nationalpark Gesäuse

Lukas Strobl - Rafting im Nationalpark Gesäuse

'Nothing touches like the untouched.
Nothing inspires like the experienced.
Nothing can beat the beauty of nature.

Touched by the beauty of the national parks herself, the journalist has set herself the goal of creating enthusiasm for nature with the help of social media. Inspiring content should provide new food for thought and ideas. She created reels with interesting information about the flora and fauna of the Kalkalpen National Park. One focus was on presenting various trails for hiking or cycling. There is also a place for research in the National Park.

Her reels can be found under the following links:

Ebenforstalm mit dem Rad

Alpstein und Trämpl

Triftsteig

Rundwanderweg Wollgras, Alm & Wasserschwinde

Rundwanderweg "Im Tal des Holzes

Hintergebirgsradweg

Klimaforschung Zöblboden

Kleine Wegbegleiter

The fashion designer writes ‘In the end, the Thayatal National Park touched me not only because it is untouched. It touched me because it showed me that true beauty and permanence lies in things that exist in harmony with nature. Things that are part of a larger cycle.’ She will take this realisation with her in her work as a fashion designer and try to create collections that reflect this cycle - sustainable, timeless and in harmony with nature. During her stay, she created reels and pictures that show her view of the national park.

Nadine's View [PDF]

Her reels can be found under the following links:

Burg Hardegg

Das Tal

Die Rauschende

Es herbstlt

Frieda

Nadine's view

Natur Regen

Russischer Bär

The photographer has created a large number and variety of videos and photos during his stay in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Salzburg, which are intended to reflect the dynamics and constant changes in nature. Wild and grazing animals, the different types of landscape, but also the people in the national parks find their place. His videos show both natural and cultural landscapes and provide a multi-layered insight into the national park region.

Photo gallery [PDF]

Some of his reels can be found under the following links:

Wanderung Wildgerlostal

Stubachtal

Obersulzbachtal

Krimmltal & Wasserfälle

Hollersbachtal

Großglockner Panormastraße

Rauris

Krumltal

The photographer, who is active in the field of social media, created a wide range of images for the Donau-Auen National Park, from excursions to the holiday camp and detailed shots of nature. The results are lovingly designed social media posts full of information and inspiration, which invite you to take a closer look at the national park.

The student's approach was to make it possible to experience and narrate nature in an accessible and inclusive way. During her scholarship in the Thayatal National Park, she took on the challenge of writing for accessible reading. She wrote pictorial, imaginative stories and tried out different reading needs - including texts in easy language and audios, accompanied by pictures.

Grenzraum [PDF]

https://taldazwischen.wordpress.com/

Texts in plain text form in german [PDF]

The artist tells stories visually in picture and text form. During her stay in the Kalkalpen National Park, she created a diary in the form of a comic travelogue. In her ‘Notes from the Kalkalpen’, she has brought together drawings and texts that report on her experiences during the media scholarship. However, we can remain curious, as she is currently working on a comic poster on the subject of climate change in the Limestone Alps, which will also be published here.

Notes from the Kalkalpen [PDF]

Instagram: @jmdauer

Website: jannemariedauer.com