Kevin Osborn

Utata Member

Bio

I've been photographing since I was 8 years old, but aside from photojournalism in college, I only got serious about 15 years ago, and worked as a professional artist/photographer for about 2 years before family expansion caused me to drop back into the corporate world.

I like to photograph people best of all, trying to discover the archetype in each of us. Those things we can universally connect with, outside of personality.

Testimonial

Browse through Kevin's body of work and his passions are unmistakable. He is passionate about art as a powerful and creative experience. He is not a passive observer and recorder. Each one of his images bears his creative signature - the ethereal beauty of his Polaroid transfers, the haunting, iconic scanner photos, the quirky and mesmerizing moods of his toy camera shots. He participates fully in his work.

He is also passionate about people. His portrait work is most impressive. Those photos are at once intimate and universal. He captures split-second moods and fleeting emotions in his subjects - a shy smile, a surprised stare, a touching moment of sibling love. Yet his portraits also embody a timeless, iconic quality that transcends the subject, hinting at the universal that is in all of us.

The secret of Kevin's success, however, lies in the fact that he always balances his vision with a sense of humor and whimsy, adding warmth and charm to so many of his photos.

Testimonial written by Catherine Reyes