Karen Elizabeth Baker
Fine Art Photography

Uncovering hidden details, movements, and realities that escape the naked eye. Exploring the intersection of narrative, landscape, and conceptual photography.

The Unseen, Brought to Light

My lens-based practice highlights the medium’s mechanical precision, bringing unconscious aspects of vision into conscious awareness. Unlike work driven by external agendas, my images are vessels for exploring life—a process of creation that mirrors self-discovery. Through narrative photography, architectural studies, and vibrant color landscapes, my work illustrates both the technical process of capturing light and the metaphorical unveiling of hidden truths.

Recently, this exploration has expanded into three-dimensional space with shadow box constructions, bringing together photographic fragments, found materials, and sculptural elements to make deep time and memory tangible.

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Featured Work

The Baby

The Baby project echoes tropes from landscape, architectural, narrative, still life, and contemporary color photography, drawing inspiration from masters like Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, Julius Shulman, Ansel Adams, and William Wegman. At the heart of these evocative, deadpan images—often set in seedy or rundown locales like Las Vegas, and the Salton Sea—is "The Baby," a handmade sock monkey toy that disrupts the scene's sobriety.

This incongruous, moth-eaten creature serves as a playful foil, critiquing and paying homage to photographic traditions by injecting banality into abiding beauty. Whether posing amid desert reds, on rumpled beds, or in encounters like one with retired porn star Jenna Jameson, The Baby narrates an edgy world with resilient, upbeat charm, transforming sober compositions into a witty, neo-conceptual exploration.

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