60 years is not the end of it

No color goes better with Provence, says Styrian Wolfgang Fuchs. This color can stand for love of life and joie de vivre. The photographing traveler or traveling photographer – as you like it – had to rediscover them for themselves. He will make that visible this week in Steyr when he kidnaps the town hall to Provence on March 29 and expects a “nice sense of community” from it, as he says.

After 23 years, in which Fuchs was used to captivating people with his multivision shows in sold-out halls, the Corona period with its consequences and restrictions had shaken the “small family business” to its foundations. “I felt that people were becoming more and more weaned from travel lectures and that we lost a certain part of the audience,” says Fuchs.

Then he turned 60, which left him with sleepless neighbors as he watched his life’s work float away. But now the confidence is back. Fuchs loves Provence not only because of the impressive lavender fields. It is the richness of landscape forms that fascinates him, and when the air is “full of spices, herbs and lavender, then it does something to you,” the photographer is convinced.

Together with his wife Roswitha, he was in Provence at all times of the year and witnessed – and documented – countless festivals. After the years of doubt as a result of the Corona crisis, Fuchs has come to one conclusion: “You don’t have to reinvent yourself.”