Liis Karu

Photographer and book designer.

When I am photographing nature, I am not mirroring just the nature itself. I am most likely photographing the nature of myself. Reflections of myself. So that those landscapes and details of my soul are revealed on my pictures. I like to think of my photographs as PICTORIAL POETRY or PHOTO POETRY, which is my way of expressing things and feelings I am obsessed about. Mostly there are themes like love, death, pain, sexuality, humor. Universal stuff, really – life in general. Poetry is the language in what I can express myself in more abstract, therefore natural way, using elements from words and visuality from reality, I can place them to my world, and fold them together more suitable, lovable, magical way. Nature is always moving, so I am, I can´t define nor include myself into certainty. There is no truth nor objectivity, only visions… although the source may be the same…Don´t know.

Photographing is a process, which for me works both ways – from the inside out and from the outside in. Being in nature and letting myself go, just being in the moment, where I can wander, observe.