A new year! A new project!
If the most difficult task of 2001 was to win over those responsible
in the Viennese firebrigade, the main project of this year was
to improve on an already successful product.
Our main theme in 2001 was the "men
behind the masks" - for 2002, playing on the "2"
- it is the two that make a team!
The calendar is intended to show that the
fire-brigade does not consist of single fighters, but consists
of a unit and a crew . Firefighters are highly trained specialists
who are more than fit for their hard task of combating fire and
other catastrophes.
The initiators of this project, Peter Leitner
and Dorothee Gussenbauer brought the old and tested team together
again to work on this new project along with several voluntary
workers: Marion Carniel, photographer, Ursula Grimm, make-up,
and Birgit Haegele, graphic artist. After examining the first
photos for this year we were sure we would reach the same high
standard set last year.
The large media interest created by the
2001 Firefighter calendar and its subsequent success meant that
the Viennese Firebrigade is prepared to offer its help with the
shootings this year. Mrs. Renate Brauner, town councilor, visited
the 'Firefighter team' together with the Director of the fire-brigade,
Dr. Friedrich Perner, and representatives of the press and ORF
(Austian Broadcasting Corporation) at a shooting in the largest
fire training complex in Europe at the Floridsdorf fire station.
The photographs in this complex were planned
down to the last detail, necessary for such effects as the 6-8
meters long flame selected for the background of the January
photo. A fire-brigade exercise is represented at the on the industrial
training plant of this complex. This plant simulates a burning
gas main with the flame burning over the stop valve and preventing
close access. The firefighters attack the blaze "armed"
only with a hose against the flame with a temperature of several
hundred degrees. The goal is to push the flame aside with the
water jet so that a firefighter can close the valve.
Other photos were taken in the studio.
These were perhaps not so spectacular, but were a great challenge
because of the lighting conditions.
The outdoor shootings took place with the support of the firebrigade
divers at port Kuchelauer and the Grossau voluntary fire-brigade
in a quarry in Lower Austria.
The presentation of the 2002 Firefighter
calendar will take place at the end of October. The calendar
will be available immediately afterwards from bookshops, on the
InterNet and by phone. |
