Manuela Schauer · Photographer in Vienna
Hi, I am Manuela.
I believe beauty is not something we have to create. It shows itself: in closeness, vulnerability, connection, and in being fully present.
I photograph women, families, artists, brands and people who want to be seen through their work.
I am drawn to transitions in life. Becoming a mother. Changing. Arriving in your own body.
But also to a person’s creative expression, and the question: what does someone truly feel like? My work is shaped by calm, intuition and depth.
I have been photographing since 2017 and working independently since 2020. I live and work in Vienna and also travel throughout Lower and Upper Austria. Member of the Austrian Economic Chamber, professional photography.
How I work
Accompanying, or inventing together.
With mothers, babies and families I accompany rather than pose. I follow you, not a finished image in my head. The image happens in the room, between us.
With women artists and my own projects in the Greenhouse, it can be different: there we develop images together, sometimes deliberately staged, sometimes as film.