Bergolese
A one-person studio working between the lakes and the western coast. I photograph the series, then design and build the things that carry them — books, identities, sites.
Six series in progress, two commissions open for spring 2026. Prints are made to order at 40 × 50 cm on cotton rag, editions of twenty-five.
The coast, in order
Inland
Work
Hallstatt Autumn
Storm Hour
Last Light
Creative services built around stories, people and meaningful projects.
I work across photography, video, website design, social media and international project management — usually several of them at once, on the same project. Most of the people I work with are NGOs, youth organisations and independent professionals who need the work documented, designed and actually delivered.
What I do
Photography
I photograph what actually happens — the workshop table, the handshake, the ten seconds before someone speaks. Sessions stay quiet and unstaged, and you receive a selected, colour-graded set that is ready for the report and for the feed.
Videography
Video is where most of a project survives after it ends. I plan the shoot, film it alone or with a small crew, and cut it into the formats you actually need — a four-minute aftermovie, a thirty-second reel, a subtitled interview.
Website Design
A site should be the easiest part of your work to keep up to date. I design and build small, fast, responsive sites with a clear identity, honest typography and photographs that carry the page instead of decorating it.
NGO Management
I have run the inside of small organisations: the partner emails, the volunteer rota, the report nobody wants to write. This is practical support that takes work off your desk — not a strategy deck and an invoice.
Erasmus+ Projects
Youth exchanges and training courses hold together when the coordination is boring and the documentation is good. I take a project from partner follow-up to final report, facilitate the sessions, and photograph it while it runs. Nine international projects so far, in six countries.
Social Media
Consistency beats volume. I build a calendar you can keep, produce the photographs and videos that fill it, and write captions that sound like a person — then look at what actually worked before planning the next month.
How I work
One person. One consistent creative direction.
Most projects need more than one of these services, so they are usually combined. Booking them together means one brief, one visual language and one person who was in the room for all of it.
Have a project in mind?
Tell me what you are working on, and let's find the right creative or organisational approach for it.
Journal
Why I still shoot buildings at 6 a.m.
Not for the light, though the light helps. At six the street belongs to nobody, so the building has to hold the frame on its own. If it can't, no hour will save it. I walk the same three blocks in Urfahr until one facade stops arguing with the sky.
A website is a room. Design the door first.
Every studio site I've rebuilt had the same fault: five ways in and no reason to stay. So I start with the door — one entry, one first frame, one sentence — and only then decide what the other rooms hold. It shortens the build by about a third.
Project management for people who hate it.
Three lists replaced every tool I've paid for: what is waiting on me, what is waiting on you, what is finished and invoiced. I write them by hand on Monday and photograph the page. Nine commissions ran that way last year and none of them slipped past a fortnight.
Enquire
Two commissions open for spring 2026 — series work, architecture, and the identity or site that carries them. Tell me the place, the deadline and the budget range; I answer within two days.
hello@bergolese.com