These days I think a lot about the days that I forgot is a multi-layered photographic work that can be read as a portrait of three women and generations: her grandmother, her mother and herself.
Starting from her own childhood, the artist explores the conscious creation and reflection of memories. Using photography, she creates new moments with her mother that are not only lived, but preserved as images seemingly for eternity.
A particular focus is on gestures and textiles - these play a central role in her family. Textiles can be found in the life of both her grandmother and her mother, who worked as a seamstress and made clothes in her own workshop.
In THESE DAYS I THINK A LOT ABOUT THE DAYS THAT I FORGOT, Anna Breit combines archive photos from family albums with newly created, analogue images, blurring the boundaries between past and present. Her work becomes a touching photographic love letter to her mother and grandmother, raising questions about transience, mortality and the meaning of memories. The result is an intimate homage in which present and past, archive material and new photographs are inextricably intertwined - a poetic echo that resonates both in the lived moment and in the images.
Text: Maria Venzl
Francisco Carolinum, 2025
Unseen Amsterdam 2022
OstLicht, Vienna 2020
I photographed myself for the latest issue of Achtung Mode.
Thank you for including me in your field guide of Fashion People 2024.
Styling: Johanna Bouvier
Hair and Make Up: Lydia Gronostay
Styling assistants: Laura Magritzer, Elisabeth Maier
“Look Book – 01” is the second book by photographer Anna Breit. It comprises over 100 photos from the photographer’s archive from 2018 to 2024, all of which are excerpts – mainly from commissioned works. The original images were deliberately destroyed by the artist and the frame was thus reset. The commissioned work no longer exists and is equally the fundamental starting point for this playful artistic work.
What remains are grainy faces, which are serially arranged on the pages without interruption as close-up views. In Look Book – 01, Anna Breit plays with the interface between applied and artistic photography.
Published by Fotohof
Design: Andrea Ida
Texts: Jakob Breit, Corina Lueger
Translation: Mena Huber
Print: Gerin
Order the book here:
https://fotohof.at/en/shop/publications/look-book-01/
Collaborative work between my mother and me.
My mother was a tailor and used to run her own studio in which she designed and sewed mainly made-to-measure clothing such as evening dresses, coats and costumes.
Once she organized a fashion show in her atelier where she presented her work. I was a child at that time and too small to understand what exactly she was doing.
Now I am not only old enough to understand and appreciate her work, but I've also had the opportunity to work with her and combine our work.
Clothes: Veronika Breit
Hair and Makeup: Max Artemis
Models: Jiji und Zora
Facing Traditions is a collaborative project with stylist Johanna Bouvier and hair and make-Up Artist Max Artemis. Together we discovered the fashion history of their home country by questioning and rethinking traditions. With the aesthetic resources of photojournalism and fashion photography, they are facing the history of Austria, recreating a new story, adopting these garments and smashing old traditions.For this ongoing project, they teamed up with Austrian designer Susanne Bisovsky.
published and exhibited via Selfselfbooks during Milan Design 2022 at Pergola 15
Teens (in their rooms), photobook published via Fotohof Edition
Buy here
Design: Studio Martin Steiner
Broschur, Fadenheftbindung,
beigelegtes Faltplakat
20,5 x 28,5 cm, 80 Seiten
38 Abbildungen
€ 20,-
April 2021ISBN 978-3-903334-11-3
Solo Show, Improper Walls 1150 Vienna
Interview with fm4 about the show
Presstext, DE:
„Teens (in their rooms)“ ist das erste Buch der Fotografin Anna Breit. Die Bildserie portraitiert Jugendliche in ihren Zimmern und bedient sich der ästhetischen Mittel der Fotoreportage.
Das Buch wird mit dem Zitat „The Kids Are United“ eingeleitet, ein Kommentar auf die Gegenkultur, welches auch auf die Jugend der Fotografin selbst verweist. Anna Breit setzt sich in ihrer meist analogen fotografischen Arbeit mit der Darstellung von Menschen aus ihrem näheren, persönlichen Umfeld auseinander. Für die vorliegende Serie jedoch lernte sie ihre Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten auf der Straße und über Social Media kennen. Dem Buch liegt auch ein Poster bei.
was chosen as a cover story for “die Presse - Schaufenster”
„My series „Bodies“ explores the beauty of human bodies through abs- traction and precision. My intention is to celebrate the beauty and inten- tionally work against the sexualisation of the human body.
With the help of well trained and accurately performed yoga and dance poses these bodies obtain a sculptural quality. Even though there is a lot of skin and less cloths, the pictures are not to be seen as sexy.“
America 2018
I am happy to announce that my work is part of the new book, "The Man Who Fell From Earth", published by Harpune Verlag.
Together with Hanna Putz, I photographed the working process of Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter and Tal R for an exhibition at Holstebro Kunstmuseum.
