Elfi Kaut (1953)

Vienna
Austria
Email: fantasy@magnet.at

Elfi began with serious photography in 1993.
She learned the techniques as autodidact (studying many books and magazines) and through practice. She began with colourslides with the main-theme travelling, nature, but worked also with B&W films, developping and printing them herself.
The first acceptances at the Austrian Super Circuit 1995 encouraged her to continue.

In the winter '95/'96 she replaced her darkroom by a computer and since then she is working with enthusiasm on her composings.

First she created humourous pictures with penguins and frogs, then she composed pictures of a mystical virtual reality, many of them inspired by her favorite painter Magritte.

The photos exhibited have been awarded as follows :
Spielball
Essence of terra
Dreamtime
Aircastles
Wolfsnight
2 goldmedals at the Austrian Super Circuit 1998
1 goldmedal at the Austrian Super Circuit 1997
1000DM in Color Foto Magazine (Germany)
in the Aquaducte Biennale in Spain
in the Austrian States-mastership competition

More work by Elfi Kaut can be seen on her site at: http://www.bilderfantasien.com