Weston Photography News
The November Print of the Month (POM) is available now. This whimsical photo was taken during the Nude in the Landscape Workshop at the YL Ranch in Savery, Wyoming.
The special price of $300 (regular price $800) is only available for the month of November. Click here to see "Nudes in Aspen" and the complete 2014 POM Collection to date.
Here is a small selection of Zach Weston's, black and white silver gelatin photographs. Zach photographs with film. He has been photographing for the past 2 years, he has grown up at Wildcat Hill, absorbing the ambiance of living the Weston Legacy. We are pleased and proud to include his work in our latest Weston - 4 Generations 1886-2014 Exhibition. We hope you enjoy his work as much as we do.
8x10 - $175, 11x14 - $250, 16x20 - $350. To purchase a photograph please call Zach Weston at 831.233.2100
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In September we met up with Mark Comon and co-taught a 5 day nude figure workshop in Desert Hot Springs and at the Joshua Tree National Park. We rented a small hotel where we photographed in the mornings and spent the evenings out in Joshua Tree. While it was hot during our time there, we were able to keep cool by shooting only in the morning and late afternoon light. We swam in the mineral spring pools and kept ourselves hydrated.
We had great model to photographer ratios and we worked in groups throughout the week. It seemed everyone was well paired and we had a very creative week.
Each night Kim cooked us a wonderful meal. Chicken, Tri Tip, Hamburgers to name a few and he made a delicious green salad and a veggie stir fry every night too! After our meals together we critiqued 5 images from each photographer from the mornings shoot. We really enjoyed looking at the work, talking about it and seeing how we could improve on it for the next shoot. Next year we are planning a new exciting new location. We loved the Sagewater Spa but we need a bit more room so we can all be together the whole time.
Thank you to all the joined us! Looking forward to seeing some of your images soon!
The October print of the month is the 10th photograph in the 2014 Print of the Month Portfolio. The Print of the Month Portfolio is a collection of 8x10 silver gelatin photographs. All photographs are made by Kim Weston. He develops, prints and mounts his work for presentation. All photos are made from film. In this series he used his Mamiya RB67.
Kim's photographs from our Andalusia Workshop in Spain can be found in the current POM offerings. These photographs were taken in Madrid, Granada, Sotogrande and Zufre. We hope you enjoy viewing them.
We had a really great time at the 2014 September Wildcat Studio Nude workshop this last weekend. We had a few returnees, which is always a good testimonial! We met several new photographers and 3 out of the 9 students were women. That made a nice mixing of the groups. In a predominantly male industry, we love having the opportunity to have women photographers participate in our nude workshops.
This month’s POM “Wyoming Music Lesson” was originally inspired by a Helmut Newton Polaroid. It was taken at the YL Boyer Ranch at our Nude in the Landscape Workshop, co-taught with Mark Comon from Los Angeles. Stay tuned for “Palm Desert, Music Lesson”. I hope to continue my Music Series at our next workshop adventure to Palm Desert and Joshua Tree National Park. Palm Desert Figure Workshop September 15 – 20, 2014. Want to join us? Come with us and make your own Music Lesson Series!
An amazing collection of Edward Weston's photographs will be auctioned off at Sotheby's on September 30, 2014. The collection contains 548 photographs taken by Edward Weston and printed by his son Cole Weston (Kim's father). We affectionately call them EW/CW's. For more information about Edward and his amazing life please visit the Edward Weston Biography - A Photographers Love of Life, an essay by Alex Nyerges.
Aside from this special collection at Sotheby's, here you can preview some of our private collection of Edward Weston photographs for sale on our website. We have other images available too. If you are looking for a particular photograph, let us know we may have what you are looking for.
It would be exciting to go to the auction. Probably a little nerve wracking too. I believe there is going to be a catalog available. Will keep you posted if there is.
From Sotheby's site:
This single-lot sale, comprised of 548 photographs, represents the best work of Edward Weston, one of the seminal photographers in the history of the medium. Printed by Edward’s son Cole in the decades after his father’s death, the photographs span Edward Weston’s long career and include most of his iconic images, among them shells, peppers, nudes, dunes, and portraits. This Master Set encapsulates the full scope of Weston’s achievement in the art of photography and offers a definitive statement of his importance to the history of art in the 20th century.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/edward-weston-photographs-n09201.html
"Kim Weston - Wyoming Nude with Lemons" The August Print of the Month from the Wyoming Nude in Landscape Workshop is the 8th photograph in the 2014 Print of the Month Portfolio. Kim really loved spending a full week at the YL Ranch. One of the aspects of the workshop he really enjoyed was staying in the same location and photographing for 5 days in a row. Everyone ate their meals together and got to know each other a little better. This gave everyone time to discuss how the (nude model and or landscape) days shoot went and how to improve upon it for the next day.
For the very first time the Weston Photography Nude Workshop series will take place in Spain, along with local spanish photographer Miguel Soler-Roig.
Can you imagine photographing along side of Kim Weston with the best figure models in the most historical architectural sites in Spain? With Miguel's local insider knowledge you will be guided through some of the most enchanting, exotic locations imaginable.
A unique opportunity to photograph in the interiors of private CASTLES AND PALACES NEVER VISITED BEFORE!
SIGN UP NOW! SPACE IS VERY LIMITED FOR THIS EXCLUSIVE WORKSHOP
TO REGISTER FOR SPAIN PHOTO WORKSHOP
PLEASE GO TO THE BLOG. Thank you!
Instruction during the workshop:
What you will get:
LOCATIONS
STARTS IN MADRID
CAMPO DE CRIPTANA - windmills
GRANADA AND THE ALHAMBRA
RONDA
TARIFA
JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA
SEVILLE
MORE PHOTOS OF LOCATIONS ON SPAIN PHOTOWORKSHOPS
COST $4150 FOR 7 DAYS AND NIGHTS 3000 EUROS.
REGISTER NOW FOR THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!
ADD SPAIN NUDES TO YOUR PORTFOLIO!
Dates Sunday June 29th - Sunday July 6th 2014
Please send an email to nereaubieto@gmail.com to confirm your place in this workshop.
Then the information and details of payment for your tuition will be sent to you by email. Please contact the same email if you have any problems registering, need another way to pay your tuition or assistance in registration.
Fees
Cost of Workshop is €3000 or equivalent U.S $ 4,150.00.
Workshop Fees covers tuition, transportation from Madrid to photo locations and hotel accommodation. Meals and airfare to and from Spain are not included.
Send an email to Nerea Ubieto, nereaubieto@gmail.com with your name, address, phone number if you want to book your place, or call +34 91 131 0600. 50% of payment is required to secure your reservation. Space limited to 10 participants only.
For payments within the United States please contact Gina Weston gina@kimweston.com for bank wire details. We accept checks, money orders, credit cards and bank wires. Please make all payments in US dollars, and make all checks, or money orders to Gina Weston.
If you wire payment from outside the US please contact Nerea Ubieto nereaubieto@gmail.com. Payments should be in Euros.
Withdrawal, Workshop Cancellation and Refund
If you need to withdraw from the workshop, you must inform us no later than 30 days prior to the first day of your workshop, and we will refund your deposit or full tuition, whichever is applicable, less a $100.00 registration fee.
After the cutoff date a refund will only be made if a qualified replacement is found.
If it is necessary for us to cancel a workshop/tutorial, all registered participants will be notified at once, and you will receive a full refund of deposits and fees.
Notification of cancellation due to low enrollment will be made at least 14 days prior to the beginning of class. For this reason we encourage you to purchase refundable airline tickets and consider purchasing trip cancellation insurance. The workshop will not be responsible for any loss on airline tickets or any other loss at all.
Waiver of Liability
The Weston Workshops shall have no responsibility or liability for personal injury to any participant or damage to any participant’s property, or for personal injuries or damage to the property of any other person resulting from the participant’s involvement in the workshop.
The Weston Workshops has the right to cancel any workshop and to alter the time, context, or format of any workshop in the event circumstances require. In the event a workshop is canceled, for any reason the extent of the Workshops’ liability is limited to the return of all fees and deposits paid.
Need more information? Please contact nereaubieto@gmail.com
More detailed workshop information can be found here Spain Photo Workshops
We hope you will join us this summer!
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Back in the day Wildcat Hill was known as the “little house with the big mood”.
Edward Weston and his cronies spent many nights whooping it up, they shared meals, danced, read poetry and looked at each others work. All kinds of artists gathered together, Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea Lange, to name just a few.
Amazing Experience:
Here is your opportunity to make your own memories and experience what they had. Come step back in time and imagine Edward Weston showing his photographs, then step into his original darkroom where he made some of his most famous prints. Hear the voice of Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts and visual Robinson Jeffers while he reads Jeffers poetry. Feel the connection of the two artists and feel the intimacy of the spirit that still lives at Wildcat Hill today!
This evening will be an exclusive bohemian night of food, photography, poetry reading, festivity and wine. Just like they used to do it in the old days. Come party with us in the former home of Edward Weston!
Saturday June 7, 2014 5:00PM – 8PM
Kim & Gina Weston’s Home
251 Highway 1
Carmel Highlands CA
831.624.8111
$500 donation per guest. Limited to 20 guests.
Every guest takes home an exclusive photograph
Call or go online to buy your tickets today at:
www.westonscholarship.org
I always look for the light when I photograph. And when I set up a photography shoot during a workshop I am often thinking of metaphors between the model and some other object or her surroundings. I do this to tell my story.
In this photograph I am using the painting of the bird, for me this symbolized the bird being caged. Hanging the material from the window, having the model behind the veil or lace, longingly looking out the window, symbolizes her being trapped, like a bird in a cage. I enjoy traveling to teach workshops. I used to build all of my sets now I primarily shoot on location.
Our european (summer) nude photography workshop will be held in Spain this year. Starting out in Madrid and traveling down the coast and back. We will be staying in castles and visiting palaces. This is the perfect backdrop for me. Just as it was when we taught a photography workshop at Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland. Maybe you can join us! Check it out!
More information and how to "Buy" Kim Weston's "A Bird in Hand"
Looking at Kim's "Wildcat Fireplace" photograph (posted below) please post your answers to the questions directly on Kim's facebook page. As soon as our site gets updated we will be doing all of these contests directly on our site. So please be patient with us if you are not on Facebook.
Questions about the photograph on the very top right (the 4th photo) in the fireplace photo.
1. What was the full name of the photographer who took that photo?
2.Where was the photograph taken?
3. Who is the person in the photo?
4. What is the significance of this person relating to Edward Weston.
In order to win, you must answer all 4 questions correctly on Kim's FaceBook page. You must be his friend to write on his page. He will let you know who the winner is.
Previous winners are excluded. Same rules as last time. Family and close friends excluded. (Please no clues). First person to answer correctly wins this 8x10 Silver Gelatin Kim Weston photo! Please post your answers on his Facebook page . Thanks and good luck!
Gina Weston sharing the exciting news about Kim Weston's 3 Generation Show at the Midwest Museum of Art in Elkhart IN. This newsletter video continues their travels with a visit to The Art Institute in Chicago, to see their original Edward Weston photographs in their collection.The Museum houses more than 300000 works of art. I was very impressed with their collection of paintings too. We hope to get a chance to go back and spend more time in the museum halls. Thanks to The Chicago Art Institute, Ted Preuss and Doug Foster for the tour.
Gina Weston sharing photos of Kim Weston's 3 Generation Weston Photography Show at the Midwest Museum of Art in Elkhart IN. This newsletter video continues their travels while they are at the opening of the exhibition at The Midwest Museum of Art, a collection of Dr. Rick Burns which consists of over 100 photographs of Edward Weston, Brett Weston and Kim Weston.
