Manuel Wetscher
Manuel Wetscher (born 1986 in Schwaz, Austria, lives and works in Berlin and Brussels) is a photographer and filmmaker. His work includes fictional and experimental short films as well as artist books. His short films Magma (2022), At Night when Mice Scream (2021) and Four Seasons (2018) were shown at national and international film festivals. In 2022, he won the Carl Mayer Screenplay Prize of the City of Graz with Bernhard Jarosch. His artist book Bernards Skript (2022) was published by FOTOHOF edition. His themes are universal and often revolve around painful biographies, loss and the search for identity.
2024
English edition
Daisy editions
Photographer and filmmaker Manuel Wetscher brings together in an artist's book a unique archive of photographs by his father Richard Jenewein, discovered years after he died of AIDS. A universal family album documenting childhood, which questions the evocative power of an altered narrative and deals with the effects of a taboo and the poetic force of images.