Kevin Weinstein

A moment. An expression. A triumph or tragedy. Even a zeitgeist. These things are fleeting. Los Angeles-based street photographer Kevin Weinstein keeps them fresh, relivable, potent, lasting.

He’s been doing it since the darkroom ages. The instructions he was taught back then for developing photos has stuck with him: “If it is too light, add time; if it is too dark, take away time.” But in the years since, as film gave way to digital, Kevin has learned that time cannot be added or subtracted—only seized or lost. His art as a documentarian, storyteller and photographer is all about seizing the moment, and the meaning within that moment. Kevin is a master at stripping away the nonessential and capturing the essence of a person, place or point in time. The results: images that command attention amid the visual clutter that defines the digital age.



Kevin was born and raised in San Francisco and discovered photography by accident while at boarding school at the age of 15. Thirty years later, his style comes from a place of curiosity and not from formal education.

Photographers such as Diane Arbus, Gary Winogrand, Henri Cartier Bresson, William Klein, Sam Abell, Vivian Maier, Joel Meyerowitz, Lee Friedlander, Bruce Davids...

Masters in Journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism; 1997

Bachelors from San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI); 1994