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

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

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

" What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything. "

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

" 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. "

" The gallery is generating work for the masses. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Life Experiences

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "