Gregor Sailer is an Austrian photographer. He was born in 1980 in Schwaz, Tyrol, and lives and works in Tyrol. He studied communication design with a focus on photography and experimental film at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund (diploma 2007), and later completed a Master of Arts in photographic studies there (2015).
He works with an analogue large-format camera. His long-term projects look at places that most people never see: closed cities, military training villages, Arctic research and military sites, and facilities where future food is produced. He has shown his work internationally, including at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles (2018), the Natural History Museum in London (2023) and Kunst Haus Wien (2022). In 2026 he received the Paul Flora Preis.
Kehrer Verlag has published several of his books, among them Closed Cities, The Potemkin Village, The Polar Silk Road, Unseen Places and Cockaigne (2025, 296 pages). In Cockaigne he photographed insect farms, vertical farms, high-security laboratories and other facilities where food is produced.
