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Little Austria by Gianmaria Gava
The photo series "Little Austria" is a project about the urban phenomenon, “Auf der Schmelz” in Vienna, showing the intimate relation between people and their living spaces. The Schmelz goes along with the Swiss, German and Austrian tradition of the so-called Schrebergärten, initiatives which were coming up especially in the age of industrialisation, when areas at the outskirts of the towns were cultivated in order to give factory workers families the possibility of spending their free time in nature, escaping the city and managing their own little gardens.