Quotes from Kim Weston

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.

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

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

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

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

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.

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

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.