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about karen waller

Karen is a passionate and creative photographic artist who explores a range of subjects and genres through her work. A childhood spent in rural South Australia, has been significant to Karen’s sense of aesthetics and subject choices. Following high school in Minlaton on Yorke Peninsula, Karen completed a degree in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia, majoring in painting and drawing. She later became interested in photography and studied at the Centre for Creative Photography in Adelaide. Although she transitioned from painting to photography as her chosen medium, Karen continues to draw upon her painting background in the creation of her photographic images.


“In my work, I aim to capture opposing themes and the relationship between the two. Strength and vulnerability are often explored in both my portrait and landscape imagery. In my portrait work, I aim to create images which elicit a visceral response from the viewer as they connect with the humanity of my subjects. Exploring ideas around fragility, loss and vulnerability are themes that continue to motivate my process. I aim to find a balance between the metaphorical darkness and light. In my landscape work, I capture the transient nature of life and the passage of time. I search for landscapes which challenge traditional concepts of beauty and use these places to reveal the unobserved in our everyday surroundings. The impact of human influence in my landscape images is often revealed, as I explore this theme through subtle observation”


Karen’s childhood in the country, gave her an appreciation of nature which often informs her work and subject choices today. This connection with nature has seen her develop her landscape work in recent years. Having recently added the genre of aerial photography to her repertoire, Karen returns regularly to explore and capture the many salt lakes on Yorke Peninsula. Much of this recent work is available for purchase here.

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