43
STARTING AGAIN
The age when I decided to start over professionally and do something completely different.
ABOUT
Hi, I’m Stas
Almost 20 years in Vienna.
Photographer, observer, and always looking for the moments in between.
Photographer, observer, and always looking for the moments in between.
I’d been taking photographs for years. But for a long time, photography was something that existed alongside my actual job.
In 2026, at 43, I left the company where I had worked for 19 years and decided to give photography a real chance.
NOT THE USUAL PATH
Starting again
at 43.
It wasn’t some big plan I had been preparing for years. At some point, one question just became harder to ignore: did I want photography to remain something I only did on the side?
Eventually, my answer was no.
So I left a pretty secure job and started building something of my own. Since then, I’ve been figuring it out step by step.
A FEW NUMBERS
The short version
of how I got here.
19
YEARS AT THE SAME COMPANY
For that long, my professional life had nothing to do with photography.
≈20
YEARS IN VIENNA
Long enough that Vienna stopped feeling like a foreign city a long time ago.
VIENNA AND ME
Vienna isn’t
a backdrop to me.
I’ve lived here for almost 20 years. Long before I started photographing people professionally in Vienna, this was simply my city.
I work here, meet friends here and walk with my family through the same streets where I now take photographs.
Maybe that’s why I’m especially fond of the less spectacular corners.