Manfred Karner

Country: Austria 🇦🇹

Manfred Karner is a fine art photographer, born in Austria, living in Vienna. Behind every of his pictures there is a concept. After starting with an idea, every detail is important, next to taking adequate time with accessories, posing and setting the right light, he is spending a lot of time on the finalization of his work in Photoshop.

Since he has started to participate in competitions he won a lot of national and international awards. Currently he is Federal Champion of Austria in Digital Photography, he is National Champion of Vienna in the sections Color Print, Digital, Tableau and Collection and Combination of the main section. In addition he took the second place in Monochrome Print.

International he won several prizes in exhibitions around the globe, e.g. about 30 PSA Gold Medals within one year in different competitions, multiple medals in the Nordic International Circuit, best of the show in US (Wilmington Exhibition),...

Working with people is what he enjoys most. Some of his most successful pictures are with dancers. The body control of these artists and the opportunities to create exceptional art is inspiring and motivating him.
But he also likes to work with newcomer models.