A biography for Kim Westonhasn’t been written yet.
“I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.”
“The darkroom is just the means to an end.”
“My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.”
“I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.”
“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'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.”
“We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.”
“Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.”
“I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.”
“The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.”
“The gallery is generating work for the masses.”
“Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.”
“I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.”
“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.”
“In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.”