The Best of 2024…The Best is Yet to Come.

By Aleksandr Karjaka
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From Issue 100 — KARJAKA’s Best of 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come

Yes, it’s January of 2025 and everyone’s thinking about the future, new year, new you and the like. Heck, everyone’s posted, emailed and shouted out their year wrap up in a sea of holiday noise already. But we at KARJAKA, we like going against the grain, and while we believe the best is yet to come, we also don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater just because it’s a few days into the New Year, and we have so many photo babies.

A portrait is a celebration of who you are now in an instant, and then immediately relegated to the past. There are levels of past of course, and we’re all about the past 12 months in this first KARJAKA New York edition of the New Year. We’ve painstakingly gone through our shoots to bring you a single photo from each setup for display here.

If you can, take a moment when scrolling through these layouts. Enjoy the progression and simple designs. Breathe through them as if walking through a physical gallery, rather than some Instagram story and relish the stories of KARJAKA studios of 2024.

Are we still saying Happy New Year or is that done and gone? Happy Valentines?

Wishing you the most glorious of portraits and creativity in 2025!

Happy New Year!

Aleksandr Karjaka
Aleksandr Karjakahttp://karjaka.com
Aleksandr Karjaka came to New York for the music, but stayed for the visuals. As a classically trained musician, he’s had the honor of performing with some of the greatest musicians, and artistic houses, in the world. Often quoted as "Listening through his eyes." he's photographed the lives and stories of thousands of artists of all fields over the years. Here are their KARJAKA portraits.

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Aleksandr Karjaka came to New York for the music, but stayed for the visuals. As a classically trained musician, he’s had the honor of performing with some of the greatest musicians, and artistic houses, in the world. Often quoted as "Listening through his eyes." he's photographed the lives and stories of thousands of artists of all fields over the years. Here are their KARJAKA portraits.

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