Karen Callan is a photographer, painter, and graphic designer from Massachusetts. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries across New England and is in private collections. Her photography has been featured in numerous publications, including The Boston Globe. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Karen’s subject matter is diverse and includes architecture, nature, abstraction, and documentarian projects, most recently two ongoing series: “Type One, Two Patients,” which chronicles a year in the lives of a married couple both living with diabetes, and “Anonymous Among Us: Images from a New England Potter’s Field.” She has received grant funding for some of her work by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Puffin Foundation. Her website is www.karencallanstudios.com.

Asked why she photographs what she does, Karen responds:

“One of the main goals in my photography is to capture abstractions, minute details, moments in time, and the emotions they evoke. While my photographs are digital, I use computer software sparingly with minimal tweaking of the digital file. For me, the thrill of photography is in the hunt—finding the unusual and the unexpected and capturing those instances. To build images in Photoshop or another software program would remove the reward I get from that spontaneity, from the ‘aha’ moment of realizing I’ve just come across something very special.”

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