Karen Stuke completed her studies in Photo/Film Design at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and graduated under Pro. Dr. Gottfried Jäger in 1999.
1996 she achieved a foreign exchange scholarship for the Academie Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands.
She wants to do the ‚other‘, the absolute photo. The image that unites everything, the whole scene, the whole act, the whole program. So she almost inevitably came to the anachronistic slow instrument, the camera obscura.
With her camera obscura, she not only takes photographs in the theater, recording and tracking the spirit and soul of productions: in a number of further series, she uses this technique to poetically research different themes.
Her work is exhibited internationally.
She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
