Karl Herber was born the youngest of five kids in 1971 and has long felt like the odd one. Through art and photography, he has learned to embrace those qualities that make him who he is. A year spent in Austria during college laid the foundation for his development as an artist. There, he studied German, art history, printmaking and photography. Over the following thirty-plus years, he has worked as a professional photographer, won awards, and exhibited and sold work in Europe and the United States. He currently lives in Minneapolis, in a house filled with light and art, and two tall women who inspire him to be better each day. As an avid Nordic skier and runner, he can appreciate the change of seasons and morning light; enough to offset the effects of screen time and monitor glow.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Our memory is all we have that is truly our own. My work is about responding to and making tangible what I see and experience.
I go out into the world and capture that which catches my eye. Then refine and enhance that into a tangible form (the print) that still has the essence of what attracted me in the first place.
Long ago, I completed a body of work entitled, “Sitting Standing Walking,” after realizing that my best, most authentic work came from these simple activities. With that as an understanding, my work has since become an inquiry into the relationships between memory, my experience, and the creating and existence of the photograph.