Photojournalism - Professional

Leprosy

Franz Messenbaeck
Austria

Nominee

"Leprosy"
A village in Senegal at the Atlantic coast south of Dakar. Disease is a part of life. M'Balling is a leprosy village.

Biography: Franz G. Messenbaeck is a photographer and surgeon in Bischofshofen, Austria. He considers both professions as complementary. The precision of surgery influences photography, aesthetic sensibilities of photography bring advantages in surgery. His passion is landscape photography. He runs a small but fine portrait studio in the city of Bischofshofen near Salzburg in Austria. He travels a lot, mainly to the American West and to Northern Europe, where he enjoys the solitary landscapes full of structures and abstractions. These landscapes are a welcome counterpoint to the surgical work too.

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