Karen Kuehn's portraits are dynamic because they are suffused with her radiant energy. She elicits responses from her subjects that are transformed into portraits of immediacy, strength and beauty through the quick-fire play of her imagination. She doesn't do this occasionally she does it all the time. She isn't just lucky. She is good. Very good. She finds that angle, that mood, that light that inner quality and makes it manifest. Each portrait is as unique as its subject and her vision there's no "look," no formula, but a commitment behind the lens to the person in front of it and the skill to merge the two.