Mag.art. Dr.phil.
Patrick Schaudy
Since 2002, Patrick Schaudy has been a lecturer at Mozarteum University Salzburg. From 2006 to 2013, he also taught at the University of Salzburg as part of the interdisciplinary programme Academia and Art (Wissenschaft & Kunst). In addition to his teaching activities, he shares his expertise through workshops on camera construction and alternative photographic processes.
Patrick Schaudy studied at the Department of Fine Arts and Design at Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he completed teacher training in Design: Technology and Visual Arts. He subsequently earned a doctorate, graduating with distinction in 2009. During his studies, he worked in camera construction at Lotus View Camera (Austria) and as a student assistant in the field of studio photography. Following his studies, he taught in schools until 2006.
His work focuses on artistic photography, product and fashion photography, furniture making, and camera design. He is particularly interested in exploring the intersection of photographic low-tech and digital high-tech. Since 1996, he has presented his photographic work in exhibitions both in Austria and internationally.
Extensive travels and artist residencies with a variety of cameras—some of his own design and construction – have taken him throughout Europe, from Spain and France to Bulgaria, and from Norway to Turkey, as well as to Asia, including China, Iran, Pakistan, India, and Nepal, Australia, and Central America, including Mexico and Guatemala.