Studio Nine Photography

Kevin Brown is a self-taught photographer.  Inspired and influenced by many photographers, some very well known and a few close friends, he would also borrow a line from Irish poet Eavan Boland to help describe his thoughts on photography.  The finished photograph lies "somewhere between expectation and memory."  The joy of photography comes from the pursuit of finding these images, ordinary places at extraordinary times or every day images given a different perspective, and preserving them in that place between expectation and memory.  He continues to work on his craft hoping to someday consistently photograph, as Minor White stated, "not what is there, but what else is there."

Asako Severn is the webmaster of this site and also a self-taught photographer. Her story starts just like many others: her father gave her her first camera when she was 12 ..., but unfortunately it did not continue like others: she was so disappointed with the gap between what she meant to photograph and what came back from the film developing lab that she did not take any pictures till many, many years later. She now recognizes that intuition alone does not produce good photography, and appreciates more the work by fellow photographers and great masters.