Giambattista Pace Photography

One of Austria’s Event Highlights is for sure the Opera Ball where the rich and the famous, the upper-class people gathers to be seen and to show off their social status with as much glamour and glitter as possible. That The Opera Ball has a couple of alternative events is less known. One of this “contra” events is the Augustin Ball, organized by the “Augustin-Magazine”, which is sold on the streets by homeless and long-term unemployed people. In former times, to underline its role against the main event, it was called “The Ball of the Victims”.

This story was published on Witness Journal issue 21.