A former soldier, for years Anthony Karen was involved with the most impenetrable white supremacist organizations in the United States. For example, for two years he maintained intensive contact with the leader, or Imperial Wizard, of the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee. The KKK, established after the American Civil War, aims for the supremacy of white Protestantism, argues for traditional relations between men and women, and regards blacks, Catholics and Jews as sinners. The KKK also advocates the death penalty for homosexuals.

As a photojournalist Anthony Karen (b. 1965, United States) has a passion for taboos and the extreme. His previous work includes a series on Voodoo rituals in Haiti. His report on the White Power movement in America is a work in progress.