For the Happiness of Others
Booklet series, each 12 pages, prototypes.
Softcover, staple binding, 8 × 20 cm
2024
Authors
Moritz Ellmann, Raphael Reichl
Photography
Moritz Ellmann, Raphael Reichl
Graphic Design
Raphael Reichl
For the Happiness of Others (work in progress) follows the diverse realities of refugees’ lives over a period of four years, raising questions about injustice within our global society. As part of the exhibition DAY LABORER at FLUCC Vienna, a series of accompanying booklets was developed as an extension of a short excerpt from the documentary material. Each volume reconstructs the story of one protagonist through transcribed telephone conversations collected during our research. The publications offer intimate insights into the challenges of seeking asylum in Austria.
Exhibition DAY LABORER, FLUCC ViennaPhotos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Talentos de la Cocina Mexicana
Carlos Gaytán
Book, 190 pages, 2000 copies.
Hardcover, thread binding, 21 × 28.3 cm
2024
Recipes of Carlos Gaytán
Grupo Somos
Editorial
Jimena Franco
N0VO / Maria Álvarez
Photography
Nuria Lagarde
Graphic Design
Raphael Reichl
Publisher
N0VO
Talentos de la Cocina Mexicana is the first edition of a series of cookery books about talented chefs with Mexican roots, published by N0VO in collaboration with Grupo Mexico. The first edition presented the culinary world of Carlos Gaytán, who has made a career for himself internationally.
Photos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Almendrado y Tierra Roja
Booklet, 52 pages, 100 copies.
Softcover, staple binding, 14 × 21 cm
2023
Authors
Miriam Hartwig
Photography
Finnja Willner
Graphic Design
Raphael Reichl
Publisher
Karmala Cultura
Almendrado y Tierra Roja (Almond Cookies and Red Soil) is a documentary short film about the encounter with Doña Quiteria, Servilia and their companions - women from Garafía, a rural area on the Canary Island La Palma, who have spent a lifetime living on and working this land. The book tells the stories about the encounters the artists made during their stay.
Photos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Andar pisando en cascarones arenosos
Walking on Sandy eggshells
Essay on the artistic work
Booklet, 36 pages, 12 copies., handmade
digital printing, 12 x 21 cm
2022
Author and Design
Raphael Reichl
Based on my research in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, and the resulting video work Walking on Sandy Eggshells, I explore how a place can be fundamentally transformed by the dynamics of global tourism. The work reflects on postcolonial continuities, ecological questions, and the impact of global economic structures. Through observations of two contrasting fields of labor—sea turtle conservation and the construction industry— it unfolds a space for considering work, exploitation, and class relations on a global scale.
Tête à Tête
Movement/action/intervention radius Praterstern
Catalogue, newspaper, 56 pages, 1000 pcs.
Offset print, 29 × 54 cm
Publishers
Judith Huemer, Department of Art with extended painterly space action / sculpture / installation in public space, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Editors
Judith Huemer, Tobias Pilz, Ursula Maria Probst, Daphne von Schrader, Patrick Winkler
Graphic Design
Raphael Reichl
A project by the Department of Art with extended visual space-action/sculpture/installation in public space under the direction of Judith Huemer and the collaboration of Ursula Maria Probst & Tobias Pilz, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in cooperation with KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Vienna
Art is essential for our society. The artistic projects of Tête-à-Tête at Praterstern provide a new socially relevant impulse. The project serves as an example to show that places of art and creativity are also necessary in transit zones in order to make the soul of the city present in contrast to the commercial (interchangeable) happenings in railway station or shopping centres.
(Text by Judith Huemer)
Photos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
I want to disappear
Approaching Eating Disorders
Book, dt./engl., 208 p.
17 × 21.5 cm
2017
Authors
Mafalda Rakoš, Mag.a Elizabeth McGlynn, Harriet Vrana
Photographer and Editor
Mafalda Rakoš
Graphic Design
Raphael Reichl
Eating Disorders are not just about food or the desire to be thin, and they are much more widespread than commonly assumed. One out of ten women, so the current hypothesis, struggles with Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating or another form of the phenomenon. Research confirms that especially those living in industrialized countries are at highest risk to be affected.
Text by Mafalda Rakoš
Mafalda RakošFotos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Donde vivo yo
Realities of life in Guatemala City
Book, 300 pages, self-published 500 copies.
Softcover, thread binding, 18 × 24 cm
2017
Authors
Evi Kostner, Fabian Kostner, Raphael Reichl
Photography
Ingo Kapelari, Raphael Reichl
Grpahic Design
Raphael Reichl
Donde vivo yo is a social documentary and ethnographic photo book project that deals with the realities of life, especially of young people from Guatemala City. It reports on political grievances, corruption, violence, poverty, courage, resistance and the human rights situation. Through the pictures and their related stories, we want to make people aware of the realities of life for young people living in Guatemala.
AmikaroPhotos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Verrückte Geometrie
Catalogue, book, 200 pages, 1000 pcs.
Hardcover, thread binding, 24 × 28 cm
2015
Authors
Monika Machnicki, Günther Oberhollenzer, Esther Stocker, Karine Tissot
Publisher
Esther Stocker und Günther Oberhollenzer
Publish House
Kerber Publishing House
Graphic Design
Raphael Reichl
The art catalogue documents the extensive oeuvre of Vienna-based artist Esther Stocker with a focus on her painterly work and expansive installations, complemented by art historical essays by Karine Tissot and Monika Machnicki as well as an in-depth conversation conducted by Günther Oberhollenzer with the artist.
Verrückte Geometrie, Esther StockerPhotos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Bricks from Sarajevo
Book, prototype, 120 pages, 6 pcs.
hardcover, manufacture, 11.5 × 24.2 cm
2014
Author and graphic design
Raphael Reichl
Production
Höhere Graphische BlVa, Meisterklasse 13/14
The book, resembling a brick, is an open dialogue with anecdotes from people in Sarajevo about the aftermath of war. The written part are fragments, like individual bricks taken out, which carry as the same weight as the subject matter of the post-war period in Bosnia.
Photos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts
3rd Generation
Book, 420 pages, 8 pcs. (softcover edition 250 pcs.)
hardcover, silkscreen, manufacture, 17.9 × 24.2 cm
2013–14
Authors
Iuna Viera and Mafalda Rakoš
Editors
Iuna Viera, Mafalda Rakoš, Raphael Reichl
Production
Höhere Graphische BlVa
Graphic design and book concept
Raphael Reichl
3rd Generation is a social documentary photo book that tells stories about the realities of life of Israeli and Palestinian youth through a personal and individual approach.
The book, written by Iuna Viera and Mafalda Rakos, is a collection of several individual portraits that express their opinions and feelings about the Middle East conflict. The authors, who are also photographers, created stories with pictures and interviews based on their individual experiences with the protagonists. It is a personal approach to create a more intimate insight into the realities of life and an alternative to conventional reporting on the Middle East conflict.
Photos by Digitale Fotowerkstatt, University of Applied Arts Vienna
