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" 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. "

Kim Weston

Here

Family

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Kim Weston

Famous

Think

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

Kim Weston

Fast

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Kim Weston

Always

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Kim Weston

Process

Need

" 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. "

" 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. "