Karen Safer is an international, award-winning photographic artist and poet with a musical bent. An LA native, born to creative, scholarly-minded parents who encouraged world travel (230+ countries/territories visited), was greatly influenced by movies, music, books, plays, and as student of art and history, inspired from ancients to moderns – Assyria to Cindy Sherman. She has a bachelor/master’s degrees in art from UCLA and CSULB. She is a member of Los Angeles Art Association, IAA-USA, Women United, LACMA, MOCA, in Who’s Who in America and Professional Women (2023), ArtTour Magazine (NY), AATOLAU interview, Artist Talk Magazine (UK), ARTtour Magazine, DodhoMagazine, Lens Magazine, ArtForum, Artillery, etc. 

She was given camera and crayons at 3 and inspired by California motifs: light, trees, the ocean, music and vernacular architecture that defined/influenced her left-handed aesthetic. She is featured in publications and exhibited 14 solo and internationally in over 100+ venues with 510+ exhibitions from London, Rome, Berlin, Glasgow, Budapest, Athens, Prague, Paris, Barcelona, Florence, Venice, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Dubai, Sydney, Zurich, etc. from California to New York, winning 430+ awards – most recently: TIFA, PISPA, Exposure One, reFocus, B&W SPIDER Awards, 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Botticelli Interna Prize in Florence, FUSION Art, TeraVarna, LA Art Show and International Color Awards 2024. 

"A photographer has the whole world big or small to capture." kj safer

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