Elias Holzknecht

Elias Holzknecht (born 1993) grew up in Tyrol and currently lives in Graz, Austria. He has been studying photojournalism and documentary photography in Hannover since 2017 and spent two semesters abroad at KASK in Ghent, Belgium, in 2020/21. He is a founding member of the photographers’ collective ‘What’s left of Photography’.

Contact
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Articles by and about Elias:

Final projects

Encyclopedia of Potential Truth.

Elias Holzknecht’s thesis examines historical narratives and their construction.

Recommended by the editors:

Collecting

The world’s largest Playmobil collection: 400,000 figures

It all began in a child’s bedroom – today Oliver Schaffer owns the world’s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. A visit to his high-bay warehouse.

Masculinity

‘Being gay is not a choice’

Dirk and Thomas came out to their families only recently. Today they live together as a couple. In an interview with our author, they talk about their path to an open life.

Masculinity

‘I was a Hitler caricature from a bad Hollywood film’

He used to march through the streets in a leather coat, carrying the Reich war flag, giving hate speeches and dreaming of the great revolution. Today Axel Reitz works in extremism prevention.

Work

Wanted: travelling shepherd

Travelling shepherds are slowly disappearing from the pastures. Why there are still good reasons not to let the profession die out.

Two herding dogs stand alert in the long grass of a meadow, while on the right-hand edge of the picture a person’s arm in a weatherproof jacket, holding a wooden staff, is visible. The scene conveys a working atmosphere in the countryside. Black-and-white photograph.

After dark

‘Das Günther’: a band that invents its songs live

Three musicians, zero planning: how pure spontaneity creates something new every night.

Wearing oversized neon-green glasses, Alex, the voice of ‘Das Günther’, sits in front of us and looks into the camera.

Masculinity

Thin on top

TikTok routines, rosemary oil, transplants: the market for hair-loss treatments is booming. Hair may be just hair in the end – but it’s never quite that simple.

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