Robert Rutöd

Robert Rutöd (* 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian photographer and filmmaker .

life and work

After an early occupation with painting, Rutöd turned to photography in 1978. From 1979 on he wrote scripts and made short films. From the mid-1990s he designed books and applications for digital media. Rutöd has been taking photos again since 2004, and his work has been shown at numerous photo festivals and exhibitions around the world. Robert Rutöd lives and works in Vienna.

Prizes and awards

• 2019: Italian Street Photo Festival, Single Photo Award, 2nd place
• 2015: Artist of the Year, Dong Gang International Photo Festival, South Korea
• 2015: Honorable Mention, FotoDC Washington, USA
• 2012: New York Photo Award, USA
• 2012: Special Prize from the Czech Center for Photography, Prague
• 2011: Honorable Mention, New York Photo Awards, USA

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2019: PHOTO IS: RAEL International Photography Festival (Tel Aviv, Israel)
• 2019: Prix Maison Blanche (Maison Blanche, Marseille, France)
• 2019: Anarchy (Helsinki Photo Festival, Finland)
• 2019: Italian Street Photo Festival (Rome, Italy)
• 2018: Les Boutographies (Montpellier, France)
• 2017: Fotonoviembre - Festival Internacional de Fotografía (Tenerife, Spain)
• 2017: The Society of the Spectacle - Malmö Fotobiennal (Malmö, Sweden)
• 2017: Baltic Biennale of Photography (Kaliningrad, Russia)
• 2017: Facts and clarifications - Riga Photomonth (Riga, Latvia)
• 2016: Secvențe - Sequences Photography Festival (Ploiești, Romania)
• 2016: Parallel Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
• 2015: FotoWeekDC (Washington DC, USA)
• 2015: Dong Gang International Photo Festival (Seoul, South Korea)
• 2014: Celebrating Europe (Kaunas, Lithuania)
• 2014: From Memory and Oblivion (Guadalajara, Mexico)
• 2013: Miami Street Photography Festival (Trendy Studio, Miami, USA)
• 2013: Delhi Photo Festival (New Delhi, India)
• 2013: Copenhagen Photo Festival (Carlsberg Byen, Denmark)
• 2012: New York Photo Awards (powerHouse Arena, New York, USA)
• 2012: Right Time Right Place (Galeria Fotografii, Bielsko-Biała, Poland)
• 2012: An Eye for an Ear (Galerie Huit, Arles, France)
• 2012: Kolga Tbilisi Photo (Tbilisi, Georgia)
• 2011: NYPHA'11 Awards (Photographic Center Peri, Turku, Finland)
• 2010: Public Space ( Architekturzentrum Wien , Austria)
• 2010: WoRK (NOPA Gallery, New Orleans, USA)
• 2010: Less Is More (Siebensterngalerie, Vienna, Austria)

Books

• 2015: Right Time Right Place, 120 pages, foreword: Aline Smithson, ISBN 978-3-200-04200-1
• 2014: Milky Way, 34 pages, box set - book, 12-page folder, relic (wood splinters, mounted on cardboard)
• 2010: grayscales. early b & w photographs 1978–1988, 140 pages, ISBN 978-3839110065
• 2009: Less Is More, 104 pages, text: Christine Dobretsberger, ISBN 978-3837035490

Short films (selection)

• 1993: Catch A Cold
• 1990: The ice chest
• 1988: Virus V.
• 1986: Zippedy Tunferd

Web links

• Robert Rutöd's website
• Literature by and about Robert Rutöd in the catalog of the German National Library