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" A lot of my work comes from my life experiences. "

Life Experiences

" Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera. "

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

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

" Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work. "

" Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives. "

" 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. "

" I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance. "

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

" I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else. "

" I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part. "

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

" 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. "

" It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process. "

" I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality. "

" I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me. "

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

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

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

" My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing. "

" No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do. "

" That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process. "

" The darkroom is just the means to an end. "

" The gallery is generating work for the masses. "

" The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules. "

" To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step. "

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