Meet Kara Burton

We recently connected with Kara Burton and have shared our conversation below.

Kara , so excited to have you with us today. So much we can chat about, but one of the questions we are most interested in is how you have managed to keep your creativity alive.

I’ve found great access to creativity in through an openness to synchronicity.
There are so many meaningful moments of coincidence in my daily life that can speak to further artistic ideas if I pay closer attention.
For me, creativity is more about an alignment with these serendipitous moments, which I then work forward to my art.
When I travel especially in New York, I have purposefully chosen to go with the flow when details change. By maintaining a belief in myself and the power of synchronicity in my life, I have made the seemingly impossible become possible, while improving my access to creativity in the process.
Staying open to the universe’s dance between myself and others has been most rewarding for my creative pursuits in photography, especially black-and-white street photography.
I’m so grateful that moments I’ve captured and shared resonate with so many people from all different walks of life.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I highlight my creative photography and art through Instagram, where I’ve chronicled my long time status as a wellness loving dog mom and tiny lifer…I’ve found fun in freedom and adventure travel since 2015 with my small service dogs and by traveling to New York for street photography, as well my current fashion, architecture, and lifestyle work, always accompanied by my surviving senior service dog Red @grandpaderp for the past 15 years.
I’ve been building a beautiful community of creatives, including designers, models, photographers, stylist teams, musicians, multi disciplinary artists and other young awesome New Yorkers in the scene.
With my eye toward black and white street photography for my art @karacentral, I bring a curated, artistic direction toward city events, museum photography, NYFW shows, model portraits, and architectural photos. I’m now acting as both a team member and an admin for the instagram photography groups @bnwprimeshot as well as @primeshotladies curating worldwide featured artists. I’m building a new community @nycnoedit to feature all of the city’s best unedited photos.
I am grateful to manifest these synchronous connections between people places and happenings in the city, especially as it forms a fortuitous foundation for my future work.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Taking black and white photos in New York City brought my practice with synchronicity and art into sharper focus when I access openness to possibilities, trust in intuition, and adaptable flexibility..
I find it helpful to work with these ideal qualities in regular practice, and things like keeping a daily creative journal, spending extra time in nature and utilizing various movement practices help me to stay balanced on a creative wellness journey.
I find I can increase incidents of synchronicity by cultivating an attitude of extreme openness to all happenings without letting myself over control situations or plans. With photography this provided me with results that really defied my imagination, like layered double exposures, reflections I wouldn’t have seen, or synchronous timing I never could have planned. Being open to whatever happens has been invaluable in my connective work across genres and I trust synchronicity will lead me to new ventures in alignment with my purpose as well as produce some pretty cool art photos…

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?

I’d love to network with fellow artists and individuals who share a passion for storytelling whether that be through visual means such as photographers, filmmakers and curators…I am hoping to intersect with others that create through a variety of mediums, including street art and dance, to explore the boundaries of art and culture while still finding that synchronous space.
I’d like to connect with art gallery owners and other creative directors for ideas of how to curate and maintain the multi faceted impacts of photographic work in current commercial art culture.
I’m also excited to look at the connective aspects of creativity in fashion and street photography and foster ways to trade within communities to bolster growing artists.

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Image Credits

All images by Kara Burton @karacentral #karacentralphoto

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