Photographer: Karen Hirsch

Karen I. Hirsch is an award-winning commercial, editorial photographer and fine art photographer/visual artist based in Chicago, IL.  Her photos have been published in Communication Arts, Graphis, Architectural Digest, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune and many other magazines, newspapers, books and calendars. Her images have won international awards and art grants from the City of Chicago and the Illinois Arts Council. 

Hirsch formerly served as the in-house photographer and magazine editor for Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising in Chicago. She has provided images for Nike, Coca Cola, Marlboro, Citibank and Fidelity among other corporations. In 2007, the Government of China invited her to photograph the city of Rizhao to attract tourism and business to the metropolis.

Hirsch's fine art work has been displayed in galleries in New York, West Palm Beach  Los Angeles and Chicago.