Books
Reset
A backpack full of fate. "The accident was a kind of reset," says para-canoeist Mendy Swoboda. "Everything that came before is actually irrelevant." Reset. To reset, then: Günter Valda has chosen this word as the title for his new photo book. Created in cooperation with the Austrian General Accident Insurance Institution, it shows people with missing limbs.
160 x 230 mm, 160 pages
First edition, 2024
Price 38 Euro
Design by Katrina Wiedner, 2024
Published by Verlag Kettler
ISBN 978-3-98741-145-8
House of Fate
For the staff, the emergency room at Vienna's General Hospital is simply "the bunker." It's about life. Death. From photos of medical photography, life flows: The delicate, precious becomes flesh. The injury is injury. The wound is wound. The disease is object. If staging seeks to abstract stench, blood, stress, and fear into a cool and spherical world, then the "bunker" with its '70s furnishings and aesthetics makes the attempt fail absurdly.
270 × 210 mm, 160 pages
First edition, 2024
Price 38 Euro
Design by Katrina Wiedner, 2021
Published by Verlag Kettler
ISBN 978-3-86206-880-7
Don’t Let Me Down
Für die Mitarbeiter ist die Notaufnahme im Wiener AKH schlicht »der Bunker«. Es geht um Leben. Tod. Aus Fotos der Medizinfotografie fließt das Leben: Das Zarte, Wertvolle wird Fleisch. Die Verletzung ist Verletzung. Die Wunde ist Wunde. Die Krankheit ist Objekt. Sucht Inszenierung Gestank, Blut, Stress und Angst in eine kühle und sphärische Welt zu abstrahieren, so lässt der »Bunker« mit seiner 70er-Ausstattung und Ästhetik den Versuch ins Absurde misslingen.
130 x 185 mm, 320 pages
First edition, 2022
Price 20 Euro
German/English
Design by Katrina Wiedner, 2022
Published by Verlag Kettler
ISBN 978-3-86206-972-9
