A self-taught photographer, Lois Hechenblaikner was born in 1958 in Reith im Alpbachtal, Tyrol, where he lives and works today. Since the 1990s his photographic, film and sculptural work has explored the surface and underbelly of alpine mass tourism, and its impact on the environment. Hechenblaikner’s photography has been shown at institutions including the Musée d’Ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Kunst Haus Wien, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunsthaus Zürich and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Steidl has published his Winter Wonderland (2012), VolksMusik (2019) and Ischgl (2020).