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Rotlicht. Festival for analog Photography 2024
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06/05/2026

We’re looking for a graphic designer!
Be part of creating the visual design for an international photography festival⚡️📷

Taking place for the sixth time this year, Rotlicht Festival is dedicated to analogue photography and features national and international photographers and guests.

For this year’s edition of the festival, which takes place from 27 November to 6 December, we are looking for a graphic designer (he/she/they/no pronouns) who can take on the following tasks: designs for digital and print media; design and layout of posters, flyers and the festival catalogue.

Where: Vienna, Austria (remote possible, but we would prefer a person living in Vienna).

When: May-December (main work months would be
May/June and August). It is a mini/part time job on a fee-for-service basis.

Work languages: German & English.

Payment: There will be a payment on a fee-for-service basis, which will be derived from the profits of the festival and distributed among the team - therefore, we are not yet able to specify an exact amount.

We welcome all nationalities.

💌Application: Send us an email with a PDF (max. 1 PDF) containing your details + portfolio to [email protected]

Come and work with us!❣️

02/05/2026

APPLY NOW: OPEN CALL 2026
ROTLICHT FESTIVAL FOR ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY

⚡️Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities⚡️

The Anthropocene - often described as the age of humankind - names an epoch in which human activity decisively shapes the Earth’s ecological and geological systems. Yet this narrative of dominance may itself be a construct. Ideas of control, progress, and technological mastery stand in tension with a world increasingly defined by instability, complexity, and fragility.

We welcome submissions that engage with these tensions and expand the discourse through experimental, critical, and process-oriented approaches in analog photography.

🕒Submission deadline: June 30, 2026
🏆Announcement of winners: July 20, 2026
🤍Exhibition: November 26 - December 6, 2026, Atelierhaus of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
📷Format: Single series or project (max. 15 images)
🎞️Medium: Analog / hybrid processes (no exclusively digital photography)
✉️Submission: Online via the form at www.rotlicht-festival.at (link in bio!)
💎Open call fee: €20

For further information we provide a Q&A section on our website as well.

24/01/2026

Exhibition views part 2 of the main
exhibition of Rotlicht 2025

Have a look at some impressions of the projects by
the open call winners of 2025

🩵Mia Baraka: Chosen Sky 02
💚Regina Anzenberger: Floating Bonds
🤍The Hays: The Last Language
🖤Tamara Kalo: Bitter Flight
💛Tanya Traboulsi: Beirut, Recurring Dream
🤎Jorden Senior: Entangled Shadows: Mordançage at the Edge of Coherence
🩶Haohui Liu: Eroded Equilibrium
💜Carlos Del Rio-Bermudez: The Rapture found me napping

Stay tuned for Rotlicht Festival 2026!

12/12/2025

Exhibition views part 1 of the main exhibition of Rotlicht 2025

Have a look at some impressions of the projects by this year’s open call winners

🩵Victoria Margarita Ahrens: Vestiges of the Unearthed
💜Ella Morton: The Residue of Starlight
❤️Abdelrahman Alkahlout: Life after Extinction: Gaza’s Silent Survival
🩶Carlotta Valente: Stones Have Always Slept Beneath the Open Sky - Speculative Archive After Comet X1
🤍Tim Rod: Urgent Paradise
🧡Craig Mehra: Impressions of the Past

28/11/2025

A big thank you to the artists who rounded off the festival opening: DJ Mister Knister played his sets with vinyl records and provided the evening’s musical backdrop, Sonia Ciaroni and Dinara Daurova concluded the opening speeches with their musical performance, and Zsófia Lipták delivered a dance performance later in the evening amid the main exhibition.💫

27/11/2025

The festival week is filled with lots of workshops. Here are a few impressions from four of them:

💚Experimental and sustainable photo books using camera-less photography led by Aindreas Scholz

🖤Black & White Film Development led by Dino Rekanović

💛Polaroid - beyond the white frame led by Veronika Mol

💜Wild Emulsion: Film Soup and Colour Mordançage led by grand prix winner Ella Morton

26/11/2025

Rotlicht Festival Selection Artist 2025:
OLEKSANDR GLYADYELOV

Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov, whose exhibition is on display at the Atelierhaus, travelled to Vienna for the opening of the festival and for several events. Here are some impressions from the guided tour with Glyadyelov, where he gave a tour of his own exhibition and talked about his work, as well as from the book signing. On Sunday, we also hosted a screening of a documentary about him by Ksenia Kravtsova. We would like to thank Oleksandr Glyadyelov for his impactful and important work and for taking the time to be at the festival, as well as all the visitors to the events!

⚡️Event tip: On Saturday, November 29, there will be a guided tour through the exhibition with curator Michael Laubsch. Time: 5-6 p.m.

22/11/2025

ROTLICHT FESTIVAL PASS⚡️

If you take a look at our programme flyer and wonder what the small red film rolls next to some events mean: They mark events free for Rotlicht Festival Pass holders!

For visiting the festival, it is not mandatory to hold a festival pass, but it does have several benefits:
⚡️Unlimited free admission to the festival headquarters and thus to the exhibitions, guided tours and talks that take place there (regular admission: €8 per visit).
⚡️Participation in special events for festival pass holders (WestLicht Guided Tour, Leica M Photo Walk with Fabian Sorger, Guided Tour The Viennese Photographers with Franz Xaver Setzer & Marie Karoline Tschiedel).
⚡️You receive a festival catalog.
⚡️With the purchase of a Festival Pass you support the Rotlicht team our work for the festival!🩷

Price: €35

Buy your festival pass online & pick it up / buy it on-site at the Festival Headquarters - Lehárgasse 8, Gate 2, 1060 Vienna.

22/11/2025

ROTLICHT FESTIVAL OPENING IN PICTURES

A big thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday to celebrate the opening of Rotlicht Festival 2025!

Here is a small chronology in pictures from yesterday’s opening day:
1. A big thank you to our volunteers for their help in setting up the exhibitions and front area.🧡
2. Setting up the main exhibition.
3. Exhibition designer Felix Dürler didn’t lose his sense of humour even during the stressful set-up.
4 and 5. Exhibitions, bar and the area for our sponsors such as ONDU are all set up and ready for the opening!
6. The first visitors arrive. We were overwhelmed by how many people came!🎉
7 to 10. Visitors look around the photobook area, read the programme and the festival catalogue, and browse through the prints at our Art Market. DJ Mister Knister provides us with good music throughout the night.
11 and 12. The official part begins: Host Ruby Sutton opens the evening, festival directors Dino Rekanović and Michael Laubsch give speeches, and the open call winners are honoured. Dinara Daurova .harmonic and Sonia Ciaroni .ciaroni conclude with music by Annika K. Socolofsky.
13. A big thank you to the jury and to the four of the six jurors, Hanin Hannouch, Sebah Chaudhry, Laura Ettel and Florence Drouhet, who were there last night!
14. Oleksandr Glyadyelov in conversation with visitors.
15 to 18. The moment has arrived: the doors to the main exhibition have opened and visitors see the exhibition for the first time.
19. Finally, there was a surprise dance performance.🧡

21/11/2025

Rotlicht Festival is opening tonight!❣️

In the Headquarters, the main exhibition “Life After Extinction?” with works of the 20 open call winners will be opened, as well as the Selection Artist exhibition with works by Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov (curated by Michael Laubsch).

There will be opening speeches and the evening will be hosted by Ruby Sutton !
In addition, singer Dinara Daurova and violinist Sonia Ciaroni will perform live and DJ Mister Knister will be playing music from 9 p.m.

Come by, enjoy a drink and celebrate the opening with us!🎉

20/11/2025

FESTIVAL PROGRAM PART 3/3:
⚡️Friday, 28/11 - Sunday, 30/11⚡️

Have a look at this year’s program of Rotlicht Festival 2025.

For more information about the individual events and the entire program visit:
https://www.rotlicht-festival.at/program/

Adresse

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Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	10:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch	10:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	10:00 - 18:00
Freitag	10:00 - 18:00
Samstag	10:00 - 18:00
Sonntag	10:00 - 18:00

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http://www.rotlicht-festival.at/

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