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Marc Karzen / Statement / Walking In L.A.

MARC KARZEN was born in Paris and raised between Louisville KY and Los Angeles. Karzen’s photographic career grew out of Kodachrome freestyle, straight environmental social reportage, magazine fashion photography, music portraiture — and into the unique area of on-air photography for television.

Karzen has shot for European publications including Harpers & Queen, Depeche Mode, Company, 20ans, Marie France, Votre Beauté, Marie Claire — until moving back to the states. In NYC, he shot for Rolling Stone, Glamour, GQ, Mademoiselle, WWD, Seventeen, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, international syndication with Outline Press Images and Gamma Liaison — plus shoots for ad agencies and record labels. In television, Karzen shot for Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman and he has won awards and has shown in gallery exhibitions.

From Karzen's images, the strong colors spread on wide surfaces distributed with a rigorous graphic equilibrium, broken at times by a point of attention, a face or unpredicted object, one notices a cultural background where modern painting and cinematography merge. There are bodies, architecture, and urban landscapes dominated by bright, sometimes violent light, which is almost that of the sun.” As the elements of his training can easily be seen in his bold, rich lines of color and forms that inhabit his work. Karzen has said, “My images succeed only when the strength of form, surpasses subject, by defining the relationship of shape to color”.

Site: karzen.com