Weston Photography's 2022 Print of the Month Portfolio
Again in 2022, Kim and Zach Weston are combining forces to bring you a portfolio of 12 images all influenced by the painter, Balthus. Balthus has been a huge inspiration of Kim’s work over his photographic career. Painters rather than photographers have been the most influential to Kim’s photographic style. Following the portfolio in 2021, that consisted of all images of Point Lobos, they decided to switch it up and work together on a Balthus inspired collection. Kim and Zach had a great time discussing styles and putting this portfolio together. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Each photograph is the artist’s unique representation of their photographic vision. Everyone is influenced by everything all the time, and being able to comfortably put what you see down in stone is an important artistic practice. The influence is the tip of the iceberg. What is interpreted and then used to create forms the rest of the form. We hope you enjoy the collection for the 2022 Print of the Month Portfolio by Kim and Zach Weston.
Who is Balthus?
Britannica
Balthus was a reclusive painter of charged and disquieting narrative scenes. Skirting avant-garde movements such as Surrealism, he appropriated the techniques of such antecedents as Piero della Francesca and Gustave Courbet to depict the physical and psychic struggles of adolescence. Casting viewers as voyeurs of brooding pubescent female subjects, he scandalized audiences with his first gallery exhibition, at Galerie Pierre, Paris, in 1934. In the sixty years that followed, Balthus cultivated a self-taught classicism—evident in the subject matter and technique of his interior portraits, street scenes, and landscapes—that ultimately served as a framework for more enigmatic and subversive artistic investigations.
-The Gagosian