Starting portrait photography in 2009, the artist Karen Jerzyk, based in Boston, decided to make portrait part of her main guidelines. Having no resources to rent a studio at that time, it forces her to be creative using the world around her. She goes out searching for abandoned places and realizes their potential : that’s why she decided to work with it.
After her father’s death, her art became a real therapy, and she found an essential need to connect with it. From that point, her pictures shows much more emotion than before. And for a good reason : her feelings, but also the internal struggles she’s fighting with incessantly just pours into her splendid clichés. In a dark and very talkative atmosphere, her shots permit to expose the wide pallet that constitute human feelings, including the most buried ones, as can be shown in her series entitled “Last Days Of Earth”.
