An Interview with Casey Kelbaugh
Your name:
Casey Kelbaugh
Age(optional):
32 years inside this head.
Where are you from?
First Princeton, NJ, and then Seattle, WA.
Where do you live now?
East Village, Manhattan
What’s your day job?
I am a part-time shepherd.
Which artists inspire you? (Doesn’t need to be photographers necessarily)
Leonard Cohen, Sabra Field, Sebastao Salgado, John Currin, Bob Dylan, Greg Lundgren, Andy Goldsworthy, Joseph Campbell, Elinor Carucci, Edward Gorey, Kenneth Josephson, Keith Haring, W. Somerset Maugham, etc.
Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was something you wanted to pursue seriously:
I was into drawing and later, painting. One day in 1997, while studying sumi-e ink painting in Tokyo, I began to feel the frustrations with the medium as well as my own limitations. I took a look at the snapshots I had taken in years previous and the paintings I was making at the time and realized that the photographs were stronger. Once I came to terms with that, my approach to painting was: “What’s the point?� Sometimes I think your medium chooses you.
What kind of camera do you use?
The tool changes frequently and gets knocked around pretty good, but at the moment it’s a Nikon D200.
What’s your favorite film?
An Inconvenient Truth
What’s your Favorite Museum?
Manhattan
Who is your hero?
My father
Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
Lou Reed
What are you reading now?
I read all the time and I still can never keep up. Most of my time is spent with periodicals (which is probably a curse,) New York Magazine and News Photographer being some of my favorites.
Favorite color?
Um.
Name at least three web sites you visit everyday:
slideluckpotshow.com
lightstalkers.org
worldpicturenews.com
What are your favorite foods?
I cook almost all of my meals and I eat like a king. I guess that means my favorite meals are big bowls of cereal, well-designed sandwiches, pasta dishes, egg scrambles, curries, salads, quesadillas, and barbeque.
Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
One hobby I have is a guestbook I have for my apartment. I am determined to make it the most dynamic and memorable of its kind, and to do so, I am hosting some pretty interesting people. If only I could get them to sign the book.
If you could be any animal, what would you be?
Astrologically I am a Taurus with a Leo rising, and by the Chinese calendar, I am a Tiger. So I guess that makes me part-Tiger, part-Lion, part-Bull and part-Man.
Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
I cook in a pretty spontaneous and intuitive way. I date in a similar fashion.
Have you exhibited your work in any other shows? If so, which ones?
I have contributed work to every Slideluck Potshow (http://www.slideluckpotshow.com) since I founded it in Seattle in 2000— which is over 26 slideshows. I have been a part of other shows as well, but Slideluck has been my focus. What better way is there to look at photography than in a slideshow with a room full of people, anyway?
June 6th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
[...] SlideLuck PotShow is coming up June 17th. The deadline for submissions is June 5, with the theme being “Grace.” Our Spring Hot Shot, Casey Kelbaugh, started the event in Seattle and many other cities. Great way to combine photography with audio (or silence.. depends on what you’re going for) and with people bringing in food, how great is that! I would love the combination of someone’s jambalaya with someone else’s chow mein. Mmm, food and art. Great combo! Lots of the jb family have contributed to the fun gathering! [...]