# about

> A graphic designer and photographer working with both digital and analog methods. Their practice emphasizes a hands-on approach, process, and the space between intention and outcome. Based between Austria and southern Greece, the author develops client work and personal visual projects, often collaborating with others.

![Stylized black letter U - a logo symbol.](https://ursulahechenberger.com/wp-content/uploads/u-logo.webp)

# I’m a graphic designer and photographer working between digital and analog ways of making. My practice is shaped by a hands-on approach, attention to process, and an interest in what happens between intention and outcome.

I’m drawn to work that carries meaning — work that doesn’t just resolve visually, but leaves room for feeling, thought, and presence. Tools and pace are chosen deliberately: sometimes that means moving quickly, sometimes slowing things down so something more considered can take shape.

I work primarily online and across borders, and I’m based between Austria and southern Greece, where I spend time in my studio developing both client work and my own visual projects.

Collaboration, for me, starts with listening. It’s a way of working that values clarity, curiosity, and trust. When it helps, I work with others whose perspectives and skills add something essential to the process.

Whether a project is quiet or ambitious, small or expansive, I care about how it becomes what it is — and about making things that feel grounded, thoughtful, and worth keeping.

![Ursula Hechenberger-Schwaerzler: a woman with curly hair, in a dark room, next to a wooden desk.](https://ursulahechenberger.com/wp-content/uploads/self-portrait2.webp)

![Stylized dark gray letter U with a small dark gray circle - a logo symbol.](https://ursulahechenberger.com/wp-content/uploads/u-dot-logo.webp)