Title: Ballet Series 5, # 8.
Print 11"x14", mounted to 16"x20"
Negative 2002, printed 2009.
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print
Price: $220.

Kim Weston has been a fine art photographer for 30 years specializing in large format photography. His main body of work consists of silver contact prints made from 8x10 negatives. In addition to the 8x10 format he prints in 11x14 and 16x20 sizes. Kim also photographs with a Mamiya 67 that he inherited from his father Cole Weston. He prints in Platinum and lately he has added paint to his photographs.

Kim is a third-generation member of one of the most important and creative families in photography. He learned his craft assisting his father Cole in the darkroom making gallery prints from his grandfather Edward's original negatives. Kim also worked for many years as an assistant to his uncle Brett, whose bold, abstract photographs rank as some of the finest examples of modern photographic art.

“For many years I worked with my father, Cole Weston, helping him print, mount and spot his father's, Edward Weston's, negatives. I also spent 15 years working very closely with my uncle, Brett. Through these great opportunities I learned a very valuable lesson about art. We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. After spending countless hours and producing thousands of images in both my fathers' and Brett's darkrooms, I needed to prove that the image was not the most important part of the process, that the process itself held the rewards I was looking for. So for ten years I made only one print of each image, and mounted the negative on thback. The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules. I wouldn't have it any other way.”

Kim's photographs can be seen here.