EP 41 • Kirth Bobb
About Kirth
Kirth Bobb is an award-winning photographer and teacher whose work illustrates the synchrony of life and spans several photography genres, including portraiture, street photography, weddings, and fine art.
Kirth's Afro-Guyanese upbringing heavily influences his work. The diverse, bright, and vivid colors and cultural landscapes of the Caribbean shapes his photography.
His photography inspires people to broaden their perspectives about places and communities they may be unfamiliar with and encourages an appreciation of the beauty in the subtle, familiar, and mundane aspects of everyday life.
Kirth is a FujiFilm X Photographer, and his photographs have been published in several major publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Huffington Post, and featured in several exhibitions across Europe, The Caribbean, and The Americas.
Show Notes:
Website: kirthbobb.com
Where are you based?: Washington, DC
Camera Brand: Fuji
Most Influential Photographer: Gordon Parks
Favorite Lens: 35mm - Classic storytelling focal length
In your opinion, what is the most/least diverse field of photography?:
Most Diverse - Wedding, portrait, or any genre within what I could consider retail photography.
Least Diverse - fine art, commercial & advertising, or any genre where there is an euro centric aesthetic and lots of opportunities to earn $
What do you consider the biggest hurdle for Black photographers today?
There are a lot of Black photographers, but not a lot of Black-owned and accessible agencies, art buyers, curators, creative directors that work in the spaces that Black photographers have had difficulty penetrating. For me it's about how we solve our own problems of access, we need to build our own gates, or at least get some keys to existing gates so that we can open them up to more diverse expressions and understanding. I think aesthetics is also a hurdle. Defining our own aesthetic and not focusing so much on "what fits the look" especially since we didn't have much of a say in how "the look" was crafted in the first place.
Instagram: @kirthbobb
Twitter: @kirthbobb
