Kim Weston
Photographer
I’ve spent the last several years questioning what the naked-eye sees and doesn’t see. The camera sees and captures what we don’t humanly have the capabilities to see in splits of seconds. My Camera was given to me by my mother and has been my access to freedom from a very early age. Most of these photographs where shot at Native American powwows or ceremonies. I sit on the ground while shooting so I can feel the drum in my body. It’s the heart beat that guides me to press the shutter on my camera. I’m in direct connection and in sync with everything around me. The music and dancers movements have an emotional affect on my spirit that I can’t explain with words. So I use my camera to capture the connections I’ve created with my people, my ancestors and my family. I don’t expect people to feel what I feel but these photographs are a direct result of ancestral and human energies being one in a moving moment frozen in time that constantly moves onwards.
