Zitat des Tages von Kim Weston:
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.
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.
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 great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
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 was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.
I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
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.
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'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.
The gallery is generating work for the masses.
The darkroom is just the means to an end.
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.
Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.
My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.
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.
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell 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.
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.
Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.
I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.
I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.
I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.