Willy Puchner (born 15 March 1952) is an Austrian photographer, artist, painter, and author.

[1] Puchner was born and raised in Mistelbach an der Zaya, Lower Austria, on 15 March 1952.

In 1967, he relocated to Vienna to attend photography classes at the Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Higher Federal Institution for Graphic Education and Research).

Starting in 1989, Puchner has worked regularly for the Wiener Zeitung, an Austrian newspaper.

[4] For one of Puchner's projects, a children's picture book titled, "Penguins – Traveling the World",[5] he traveled with a pair of penguin statues, "Joe and Sally", taking them to tourist sites—including the sea, the desert, New York, Sydney, Paris, Venice, Tokyo, Honolulu, Rome, and Cairo—to photograph them there.