Karl F. Stewart
National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residence photography grant for two years . Photographer for the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh . Taught photographic design at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh . Freelanced for Associated Press, Pittsburgh bureau . Worked as a photojournalist / journalist / assistant editor for small newspapers in Ohio, Virginia and W. Virginia . English Lecturer, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy for 24 years . Studied psychology and philosophy at Duquesne University and Journalism and Latin American Studies at Ohio University . Have been living in France and Italy for 27 years . Was recently photographing in San Francisco, California for three years . Presently doing photography and video out of Dusseldorf, Germany . Speak English, French and Italian.
Films
- My Shadow . An Illusion of Me3' 10''
My Shadow . An Illusion of MeProduction: 2013
The film plays with the tension between images of shadows, a text describing shadows and an audio independent from the images and text. This juxtaposition of each element one to the other in the end creates a sense of lightness appropriate for a shadow.
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- Berlin Conversations . Up Down Nowhere7' 05''
Berlin Conversations . Up Down NowhereProduction: 2014
The expression life is full of ups and downs seems appropriate for a video based around escalators. These moving stairs come and go and always end somewhere. In this video the destination is the platform of an S-Bahn, U-Bahn or the Hauptbahnhof in Berlin. And after all the ups and downs I have taken, a question lingers ... through all our journeys, where are we? Escalators and train stations are possibly a good metaphor for life. At the end of the escalator, another journey always begins. And the ups and downs of an escalator eventually form circles. We call them routines, history repeating itself. At the end of the ride we end up nowhere in particular and oddly enthusiastic to repeat the experience.
Berlin Conversations is a series of videos on the images and sounds of The City. Up Down Nowhere is the second video in the series.
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