In her book "la vie et la mort" the Austrian photographer Eva Maria Ocherbauer shows on the basis of a comprehensive overview of her work a special sight of world context. Each picture focuses the view on the relation between things and humans, the animated and unanimated, the infusible of living and passing away in nature and civilisation, what is hidden and what is real. The artist rediscover with today’s posibilities the traditional genres of photography – portrait, still life and landscape with a patient way of research.