Portrait nominee

Programmatic blur, a manipulation already made clearly visible in the shot, where the concrete effortlessly becomes abstract, but without losing the content. It makes us look deeper, in order not to get stuck on the surface and the supposed clarity. The images force us to focus, to look behind things.

Thom Trauner was born in the sixties in Wels, Upper Austria. In 1979 he started an apprenticeship as a lithographer and worked in the printing industry and as a graphic designer. In the early seventies his father gave him his first camera. He was fascinated by the moment when a picture is created in the darkroom, a picture that previously existed only in memory. He is an enthusiastic portrait and wedding photographer for several years now and have been awarded with the national prize for professional photographers. Since twenty years he lives with his wife Ute in the beautiful Salzkammergut, Upper Austria.

Awards:
Landespreis Berufsfotografen Oberösterreich 2019, Gold, Silver, Silver.
Annual Photography Awards 2020, 2x Honorable Mention Winner In Portrait Category.
7th Fine Art Photography Awards 2021: Nomination (4x).
International Portrait Photographs of the Year 2021: Top 101.
Moscow International Foto Awards 2021: 2x Bronze, 2 Honorable Mentions.
International Photography Award 2021: 6x Honorable Mentions.
ND Award 2021: 4x Honorable Mentions.
Moscow International Foto Awards 2022: Category Winner (Events) 2nd Place, 1x Gold, 3x Silver, 1x Bronze, 6 Honorable Mentions.