[6] From the very first exhibition (Fritz Macho in 1981), part of the Fotohof's remit has been to process and administer the life work of artists as reflected in their photographic oeuvre.

And that of course includes the negatives and contact copies, or the original digital data illustrating the full breadth of the creative process involved.

[7] At present (2023) the archive comprises works by Inge Morath, Wolf Suschitzky, Edith Tudor-Hart, Peter Dressler, Paul Albert Leitner, Michaela Moscouw, Karl Heinrich Waggerl, Heinz Cibulka, Doug Stewart, Gerti Deutsch, Otmar Thormann, Heidi Harsieber, Werner Schnelle, among others.

A study and training room is available for processing, digitising and printing photographs, also providing premises for small-scale courses and a work environment for curators.

A database is being set up to record all the existing archive material and provide a public domain that is readily accessible online via the homepage.

Some thirty volumes have so far been published as part of the series, focusing on artists’ monographs and the history of photography and photo journalism.

Publications include editions by VALIE EXPORT, Joachim Brohm, Ilse Haider, Eva Schlegel, Lewis Baltz and Heinz Cibulka.

An important part of Fotohof's activities also involves running a publicly accessible reference library with currently (2023) approximatively 16,000 titles on the history of Austrian and international photography.

All the decisions at Fotohof are taken at its board meetings: ‘Roughly fifteen people who work at the gallery on a regular basis are on the executive committee, deciding on exhibitions, book projects, and the overall strategy of the gallery.’ (Kurt Kaindl).

[14] On 24 February 2012 Fotohof inaugurated new premises at the Stadtwerke Salzburg Areal, at the address Inge-Morath-Platz 1–3, with a presentation of works by Belgian photographer Dirk Braeckman.

[1] ‘The building is sited in the working-class district of Lehen, where dilapidated 1960s-era apartment blocks were demolished and rebuilt as low-rises flanking a new square.

Again openly and transparently, it incorporates the gallery with views through to all the work areas into the ground floor of the equally new residential housing development in the Lehen district of Salzburg.