Michael Mauracher

Michael Mauracher (born 1954 in Klagenfurt) lives and works in Salzburg.
He received photo-artistic training at Salzburg College in 1975/76 and attended the photography classes at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg several times. He has also taught and organised international workshops at Salzburg College.
In 1981, he co-founded Galerie Fotohof and was the curator and editor of Fotohof Edition (together with Rainer Iglar).
From 1994 to 2021, he was a senior lecturer in photography at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. In 2001, he was a lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and has been an honorary professor of artistic photography there since 2005.
In 2016, he won the Austrian Art Prize for artistic photography.