Karen Shacham is a photographer specializing in portraiture, conceptual, and documentary photography. She was recented awarded and Idea Capital Grant for her "Couples" work. Shacham has shown her work in fine art galleries and earned a combined academic and artistic photography fellowship in 2009. Her website is <a title="Karen Shacham, Atlanta artist" href="http://karenshacham.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://karenshacham.com</a>. Michael Carpenter is a local artist and carpenter who works with multiple mediums. He is also the founder of MDC Interiors, a business that provides creative concepts and artistic solutions for clients' needs. Carpenter is a Masters of Industrial Design candidate at Georgia Tech, expecting to graduate in 2014. His website is <a title="Michael Carpenter, Atlanta artist" href="http://www.mdcinteriors.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.mdcinteriors.com</a>.
Couples Reimagined
Karen Shacham and Mike Carpenter | 2012
Photographer Karen Shacham and artist Mike Carpenter came together to produce three large-scale photo murals of same-sex couples. The black-and-white photos were painted along with the wall space around them in a mural that reflects the environment, as if the people in the portraits are trying to "fit in" to the surroundings.