My name is Bernd Grosseck. I live near Graz in Styria (Austria). One of the things that sparked my interest in getting started with photography as a teenager was something my old geography teacher said. He said that people who own a camera, or take photographs, see much more, and go through life with a far more attentive attidude, than people who don´t have a camera. This fits with a quote by the US documentary photographer Dorothea Lange:  "the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera". I still stand behind this sentence 100% today: if you have a "trained" eye, you are instinctively always looking for a special subject. This means that you pay attention to lots more things around you or when you are travelling. As a result, I can only recommend that children are given the chance to see the world through the lens of a camera at an early age.

Consequently, I have now tried ever-harder to find a personal "look" for my images. In addition, I have also really got to grips with photography in general, its various facets and many of its exponents. For example, I have been fascinated by the work of Michael Kenna and Franco Fontana for many years. After I visited an exhibition at the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna some years ago, where the wonderful pictures by Saul Leiter were on display, I delved into numerous American artists like  Robert Frank, Fred Herzog, William Eggleston, Elliot Erwitt  and many more. In terms of French artists, the work of  Robert Doisneau, Jean Loup Sieff, Brassai  and Henri Cartier-Bresson,... is a constant inspiration to me. Of the Austrians, I would like to mention Inge Morath and Josef Hoflehner. I could continue this line-up for a long time because there are many, many artists who motivate me with their fantastic work and approaches. This means that I am also constantly looking for new approaches and designing my compositions in a more conscious manner. 

In January 2023, I took the next step with my photography. Up to now it has been a passionate amateur activity, but now it is a leap into professionalism:

May 2024 - Guest on the podcast 'weekly52' - Slow photography and minimal scenery

 In episode 370 from 10 May 2024 I was a guest on the podcast 'weekly52'. Thomas Füngerlings and I spent a good hour talking about my 'slow photography' and discussing some of our photos together. Our discussions focused on images where the focus is on composition in the context of minimalist landscape photography. 

April 2024 - ‘Minimalist - Decelerated’ in the magazine SCHWARZWEISSS 

‘Bernd Grosseck's landscape photographs are characterised by clear compositions and a minimalist photographic approach. In this way, he succeeds in bringing the essence of a place to life in his pictures.’ A selection of photos from the ‘minimal scenery’ series, which were created according to the principle of ‘slow photography’, in issue 159 of SCHWARZWEISS magazine. 

In January 2024, I started my guest blog at "derStandard.at" - photographic expeditions through villages that have something special to offer, through culturally and historically interesting district towns that you have perhaps only driven past far too often and of well-known places at a time of year when you can also enjoy their uniqueness. A blog for people who travel to the Alpe Adria region "consciously", who "take" rather than "shoot" photos.

With images from my series "minimal scenery" I am part of the exhibition "Photography in the visual culture" in Palermo - Italy (Centro Internazionale di Fotografia). This exhibition take shape from the current edition of the book (16 Feb. - 5 March 2023)

I was guest in Michel Birnbacher's Leica Enthusiast Podcast. Talk about the article "Change Management with the Leica M10", about "Slow Traveling" and about the current photo projects "Sound of Silence" and "Minimal Scenery" (03/2022)

Photography calendar 2022 for all households from my hometown Kainbach bei Graz with a collection of 13 landscape pictures (12/2021)

Pictures Magazine: series of pictures and a review about my photo project "Graz is it? It is! Urban still life, urban street life" in the  Pictures magazine (05/2020) 

Get Inspired Magazine (10/2019) an editorial about my photographic work "minimal scenery"

Photoreview with pictures of my project "minimal scenery"  in the

eye - photomagazine  (02/2019)