{"id":2012,"date":"2010-06-22T12:56:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2010-06-22T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:56:32","slug":"interview-with-fellow-photog-kwesi-abbensetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Fellow Photog Kwesi Abbensetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thebvx.com\/media\/2010\/06\/kwesi-abbensetts-one-shot-jamaica2.jpg\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kwesi Abbensetts\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thebvx.com\/media\/2010\/06\/kwesi-abbensetts-one-shot-jamaica2.jpg?resize=590%2C392\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I\u00a0interviewed fellow photographer Kwesi Abbensetts for TheBvx.com Below is an excerpt from that interview:<\/p>\n<p>`&#8221;&#8230;Yes I like beautiful women. I can&#8217;t have all of them. So the next thing is you try to capture them. And then at the same time maybe [I was influenced by my [upbringing. Growing up I was pretty much surrounded by mostly women. My grandmother, my mother [and] my mom&#8217;s friends. So I can say that I am partly influenced by that. . Then there&#8217;s a visceral reaction that I get when I see a woman who has an interesting face, lips, eyes; an interesting look.. I just want to capture that; I want to depict that. I kind of just want to have it for me. Women are beautiful&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebvx.com\/2010\/06\/21\/one-shot-with-photographer-kwesi-abbensetts\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0interviewed fellow photographer Kwesi Abbensetts for TheBvx.com Below is an excerpt from that interview: `&#8221;&#8230;Yes I like beautiful women. I can&#8217;t have all of them. So the next thing is you try to capture them. And then at the same time maybe [I was influenced by my [upbringing. Growing up &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=2012\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[333],"tags":[526,29],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swipe","tag-kwesi-abbensetts","tag-photographer","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/kwesi-abbensetts-one-shot-jamaica2.jpg?fit=590%2C392&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2486,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=2486","url_meta":{"origin":2012,"position":0},"title":"Photographer Kwesi Abbensetts","date":"4 Oct \u201911","format":false,"excerpt":"Photographer Kwesi Abbensetts","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portrait&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/kwesi02.jpg?fit=677%2C453&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4122,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=4122","url_meta":{"origin":2012,"position":1},"title":"Kwesi Abbensetts  From His Self Timer Collaboration With Charly x Margaux (CHARGAUX) Diptych","date":"27 Mar \u201914","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;events&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/kwesi-2.jpg?fit=773%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4119,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=4119","url_meta":{"origin":2012,"position":2},"title":"Charly x Margaux (CHARGAUX) Diptych From Their Self Timer collaboration With Kwesi Abbensetts","date":"27 Mar \u201914","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;events&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Charly-and-Margaux-2.jpg?fit=773%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4186,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=4186","url_meta":{"origin":2012,"position":3},"title":"Dance Africa Street Festival Part 1","date":"27 May \u201914","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;street&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/IMG_0191.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1251,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1251","url_meta":{"origin":2012,"position":4},"title":"May 30, 2009","date":"2 Jun \u201909","format":false,"excerpt":"DJ Dhundee and daughter A random trip on my bike to the Brooklyn Flea led to random encounters and ended in Fort Greene Park.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portrait&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/_mg_1380.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5","url_meta":{"origin":2012,"position":5},"title":"Azure: Burgeoning Photographer?","date":"5 Nov \u201907","format":false,"excerpt":"_MG_1567, originally uploaded by richlouis. 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