"A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” – Edward Steichen

KAREN CONSTINE is a lens-based artist whose photography explores themes of community, culture, and place. Working in both color and infrared, her projects examine shared cultural rituals and contemporary forms of pilgrimage, with an emphasis on their visual and social dimensions.

She received her B.A. in Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also studied art history. Constine is actively engaged in the Los Angeles arts and photographic community.

Constine is working on several personal projects, including her multi-series on Harajuku in Los Angeles, which embraces photographic portraiture celebrating Harajuku fashion-inspired individuals.

Her work has been exhibited in national and international juried and curated exhibitions, including Art in the Plague Year at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography; #ICPConcerned: Global Images for a Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography; and at FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona as part of the Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, among others. Her work has also received numerous awards and has been published in Aesthetica Magazine, Dodho Magazine, and Lenscratch.

A native Angeleno, she lives and works in Los Angeles.