A Journey Through the Lens Born in Hong Kong in 1963, Karl Chiu’s path toward the visual arts was shaped by a diverse and wandering intellectual journey. As a teenager, he harbored ambitions of becoming a missionary, a calling that perhaps instilled in him a deep-seated interest in the human condition. This curiosity led him to Taiwan, where he pursued studies in sociology, providing him with a foundational understanding of societal structures and human interaction. His trajectory eventually took him to the United States, specifically to San Francisco, where he transitioned from the study of…