Photo: Hanka Taschenziegel

My name is Norbert Wabnig, I grew up in Carinthia, Austria, and started taking photographs when I was nine years old. Over the years, that curiosity led to publications in magazines like National Geographic, national and international awards, and exhibitions in cities including Vienna and New Orleans.

My work focuses on fineart landscape photography with a sense of timelessness, to record the existing yet unperceived world. Some images include subtle traces of human presence, while others lean into the idea of deep time—landscapes. I like to strip  them of the noise of human presence. Through my lens, I seek an essentialist truth: a stoic aesthetic that honors both the dignity of decay and the timelessness of a world beyond our own.

I am not an advocate, nor an influencer. I have no interest in rhetoric. I believe that if the viewer can sit in the stillness of these images and recognize the world's fragility for themselves, they will find their own path toward stewardship. That is where the work ends and the impact begins.

This is exactly how it began for me as a child, and it remains the truth I wish to pass on.

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