Karen's Story
Based in Vancouver, Karen's journey into photography began in 2000 after a car accident. Encouraged by friends and family to share the photos she was taking on her rehabilitative walks, she created a blog called My Boots 'n Me.
"The work people see now was not the goal but rather part of my journey," she says. "Nature photography became a passion developed through the healing process."
After opening her own gallery on Granville Island in 2010, she is now a leader in luxury fine art photography. Karen has united her beautiful images with cutting edge digital technology to create unique and visually striking artwork. "I want to take photography to a new level," says Karen, "to make it beautiful and functional for home decor; bringing the outdoors in creates enjoyable spaces where people can thrive."
Karen Cooper is an award winning, internationally recognized photographer whose dramatic landscape images showcase the beauty of British Columbia.
Based in Vancouver, Karen's journey into photography began in 2000 after a car accident. Encouraged by friends and family to share the photos she was taking on her rehabilitative walks, she created a blog called My Boots 'n Me.
"The work people see now was not the goal but rather part of my journey," she says. "Nature photography became a passion developed through the healing process."
After opening her own gallery on Granville Island in 2010, she is now a leader in luxury fine art photography. Karen has united her beautiful images with cutting edge digital technology to create unique and visually striking artwork. "I want to take photography to a new level," says Karen, "to make it beautiful and functional for home decor; bringing the outdoors in creates enjoyable spaces where people can thrive."
Karen CooperBritish Columbia is ephemeral in all weather, in all seasons: Her moods can be gentle and alluring, or sulky and grey. Through it all, she is worth all of the time I've spent to get to know her.
Karen Cooper continues to challenge the artistic traditions surrounding nature and landscape through emerging and experimental mediums to evolve the longstanding conventions of fine art photography. Karen's lens seeks to capture the wilderness' symphony of colour and voices, transforming them into eternalized, framed moments that will inhabit interior spaces. No subject is altered: every work is an authentic and ethereal representation of that moment in time, a fragment of nature's collective memory. Karen's shared journeys through these timeless worlds are opportunities for all to visually explore the British Columbian wilderness.
Karen's works are also a declaration for environmental preservation: the natural world is under extreme threat due to deforestation, urban expansion, and wildfires. Many of the subjects Karen has visually conserved have been drastically transformed in recent memory. These works are not just invitations to appreciate natural beauty, but are also moments to understand what has, and still can be, lost.
