Karen Waller is an Adelaide-based photographer and artist who explores a range of subjects and genres through her work. These include portrait, landscape, nature, and aerial images. A childhood spent in rural South Australia, has been significant to her sense of aesthetics and subject choices.Importantly, her appreciation for the natural world formed when she was young. She studied visual art with a painting focus following her secondary education and transitioned from painting to photography as her chosen medium. She continues to draw upon her painting background in the creation of her photographic images.
Waller was a member of the former AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photography) from 2012 to 2021 and was recognised as a Master Photographer. She won numerous awards and the title of South Australian AIPP Epson Portrait Photographer of the year in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017. Some of her significant achievements include being a National Photographic Portrait Prize finalist in 2020. In 2022, she won the Portrait Story category in the International Portrait Photographer of the Year. She also won the People category in The Mono Awards, and was a finalist in the Portrait category in the HeadOn Photo Awards.
