Even after a week, so difficult to wrap my brain and heart around Steve Karr’s passing. Anyone in this business with some wear and tear on them knows that core crews are familial by nature. It isn’t something that needs explanation, you either know what Im talking about or you don’t…we have lost a member of our family. I’m sure that I am not the only photographer he collaborated with that feels this way.
We are in pre-production on a shoot that Steve was booked for. I must make the necessary calls to replace him but can’t…every time I pick up the phone to do it, I find myself overcome with grief and bittersweet memories of this memorable man…I can’t even finish dialing. For so many shoots, in so many cities, over so many years there was no other tech we would even consider because he brought so much more to the table than his job description on a call sheet. I can recall more than one shoot we scheduled around HIS availability…who ever heard of that?
As professionals, there was a unspoken clarity between us that Steve had probably forgotten more about photography than I will ever know but he never made me feel like that ….well, at least not without a #%*! eating grin on his face and a twinkle in his eye.
Steve had a remarkable capacity for being fully present in mind, body and spirit …basically all the time. An endearing mix of humble arrogance that made everyone smile. A predictable impatience with mediocrity tempered with the wisdom to let go and let live. A truth teller by nature. A leader with a servant’s heart….and a mindset that came from abundance…never scarcity.
God bless you Steve and thanks for touching our lives.
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