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Kim Weston
May 30, 1953 -
Nationality: American
Category: Photographer
Subcategory: American Photographer

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

   

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

   

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

   

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

   

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

   

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

   

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

   

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

   

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

   

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.

   

If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.

   

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

   

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

   

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

   

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

   

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

   

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

   

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

   

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

   

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

   

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