Daniela Köppl, born in 1978 in Linz and raised in the Mühlviertel region, completed a degree in Agrimarketing and Management in Bavaria as well as a program and diploma course in applied and artistic photography at the Prager Fotoschule Österreich. Since 2022, she has been studying in the master's program "Digital Photography and New Visual Media" at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, which she will complete in February 2025. She has been awarded the voestalpine nextpicture award in 2017 and the Fotochallenge Upper Austrian Research in 2019. Daniela has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Additionally, she is the chairwoman of the Artiné cultural association in Gmunden. She lives and works in Gmunden.