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mullitover:

JONATHAN CHERRY: What gets you up in the morning?

KENNY HURTADO: My friends are putting me up in a live/work space in downtown LA. They start showing up around 9am to work I make sure to be up and going before they walk in or else I’d feel like a total slob. 

JC: Are there any emerging artists inspiring you at the moment?

KH: Yeah I frequently view Andres Gonzalez’s work, Ed Panar, Nicholas Meyer and Torbjorn Rodland especially his books I Want To Live Innocent and White Planet Black Heart. 

JC: What is your current project all about?

KH: My current project Day Passing was done in Tennessee, it came together after I picked up and left California on a whim. I got on I-40 and drove East landing in Memphis, Tn. Never thought Id live in the south or anywhere in middle America. I wasn’t looking to do a project on the South per se. Was more interested in the way I connected personally and emotionally without the idea of the South as place to be the basis of the work.      

JC: What equipment are you currently using?

KH: I mostly use a 4x5 SpeedGraphic and Mamiya 7. As of recently Iv been using a 5D. When I have film to scan I use an Epson V700 and Photoshop to spot and color correct nothing to fancy.  

JC: How do you find juggling personal & commercial work?

KH: I finished school in 2010. Since then I’ve been working odd jobs to pay for personal work and haven’t been too focused on trying to pick up commercial jobs, but starting to get to that point like why the hell not.  

JC: Any advice to recent photography graduates?

KH: I’d recommend not going straight into full time photo assisting or some 9-5 right out of school. Keep your schedule open as possible. It’s best to spend a few years or more focusing on personal work beating yourself into the ground financially, giving yourself time to develop outside of the academic environment.     

JC: Favourite tree?

KH: I’d probably say a Red Wood Pine, but really I don’t have one. I tend to photograph trees a lot, no particular reason. Whenever I’m driving around making work I almost always turn off where I see the densest trees.