Karen Haberberg’s extensive background in fine art, healthcare documentation, and travel portraiture has earned her several prominent photography awards, international exhibitions, and substantial media acclaim. Below is an abridged directory of her creative achievements, including additional exhibitions, podcasts, and global media coverage.

Major Photography Awards

Her narrative-driven and humanitarian photography has been recognized by multiple global organizations:

  • Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Recognized with this premier international award celebrating achievements by women photographers.

  • The Pollux Award: Honored for excellence in fine art and documentary storytelling.

  • Academy Photo Awards & ND Awards: Earned accolades including an Honorable Mention in Landscape for her panoramic work in Acadia National Park.

  • International Photography Awards (IPA): Awarded a Jury Top 5 Selection and multiple honorable mentions for specific visual series like her vibrant Cherry Gumdrops piece.

  • Professional Women Photographers (PWP): Received the Human Relations Award and the NYC for Photographic Art Award for her close-up portraiture highlighting human connection.

  • Goodreads Best Photo Book: Her documentary volume, An Ordinary Day: Kids with Rare Genetic Conditions, gained critical acclaim as a premier photographic anthology.

Notable Fine Art & Curated Exhibitions. Her personal, advocacy-driven, and curated portfolios have been hosted across New York and internationally:

  • APA NY Annual Photo Exhibition: Featured as a spotlight artist at the Soho Photo Gallery in Chelsea, New York. She was also named an APA National Exhibition Finalist.

  • "Family Pride: Love and Belonging": Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel at the Ted & Nune Studio in New York, this group exhibition featured her moving portraits centered on the human side of chosen and biological families.

  • "Through a Jewish Woman's Lens": Served as the lead exhibition curator at the JCC Manhattan, building a collaborative show designed to break traditional cultural stereotypes through the photographic work of emerging female artists.

  • Rare Disease & Epilepsy Traveling Exhibits: Tied directly to her published books, her deep-dive documentary profiles on patient families have been displayed in public advocacy spaces and medical conventions nationwide to push for legislative and research changes.

  • JCC Manhattan Curations: Outside of displaying her own imagery, she spent nearly a decade serving as the Director of Photography and Digital Media for the JCC in Manhattan, where she curated dozens of community and fine art photography exhibitions.

Global Media & Editorial Coverage

  • ABC News & Good Morning America: Featured in a national televised profile called Project Believe, which tracked her Kickstarter travel campaign to eliminate isolation among underfunded diagnostic communities.

  • The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal: Her commercial and landscape work has been featured inside various regional and national news publications.

  • HuffPost: Detailed in a deep-dive editorial focusing on the two-year journey she took entering the homes of 27 separate patient families to illustrate their daily lives.

  • Little Black Book (LBBOnline): Highlighted her industry presence as a speaker at the 2026 Women in RARE Workshop hosted by Sarepta, covering her advocacy and leadership roles in healthcare production.

  • NY1 News: Feature on Karen Haberberg Photography and her project with kids who have rare diseases.

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Broadcasts/Podcasts

  • Adorama Podcast via YouTube: Watch her step-by-step lighting walkthrough and retrospective video stream on Adorama Coffee with Creators: Lifestyle Photography with Karen Haberberg.

  • APA Spotlight At Adorama Series: Karen Haberberg moderates photographers, directors, producers, agents, as they discuss their experience ast creators.

  • International Center of Photography (ICP): Watch her on-location training clip, Karen Haberberg on Film Noir Photography, which explains street lighting techniques.

  • Coffee With Creators (Adorama): In Episode 88 of Coffee with Creators, she talks about utilizing photography as a universal language to advocate for rare illnesses and how her early studio career allowed her to work alongside industry icons like Annie Leibovitz.

  • Life Image Podcast: On the Matthew Zachary Show, she shares a deeply personal episode about the interpersonal discipline needed to blend into a patient’s household to capture authentic human dignity instead of pity.

  • Garlic Marketing Show: Featured on the Garlic Marketing Podcast, she breaks down the production frameworks freelance photographers need to navigate corporate healthcare, hospital systems, and pharma advertising.

  • Out of Patients Podcast: She made a guest appearance on this health advocacy network discussing how data, storytelling, and visual media converge to support medical legislation and fund disease research.

 

Industry Events & Production Signings 2026

 

Editorial Profiles & Print News