<![CDATA[ <body> <h1> Ken Perkins Photography / Northern California Photographer</h1> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tr> <td align="left" class="links"><a href="/index.html"><span class="links"><a href="/index.html" target="_top"><font color="#aaaaaa">Home</font></a></span> <span class="links"> <a href="/portfolio.html?folio=Editorial" target="_top"><font color="#aaaaaa">Editorial</font></a> <a href="/portfolio.html?folio=Commercial" target="_top"><font color="#aaaaaa">Commercial</font></a> </span> <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=3" target="_top"><font color="#666666"><b>Bio</b></font></a></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Bio | Ken Perkins Photography / Northern California Photographer</h1></span><br> <div> <style> <!--
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--> </style> <span class="encloser"> <p style="text-align: justify; "> Kenneth Wayne Perkins was born in Berkeley California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area City of Richmond. Ken attended public schools in Richmond before taking a BA degree (Magna) in painting, drawing, and printmaking, and a MA degree (Honors) at the University of California Berkeley.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> He worked several jobs as a young boy; washing cars, mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, painting houses, tending horses, and loading box cars at the local oil refinery. While attending Cal, Ken maintained a studio assistant position in the Art Department. </p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> Ken has photographed for online and print news media, Associated Press, and commercially for over 35years, and has remained connected to his personal approach with image making. He was a photographic educator at the College level for over 10years and an Arts Commissioner for the City of Richmond for 2years. As an artist, Ken has exhibited his photographs locally and nationally; including the California Museum of Art Santa Rosa California, Project Artaud San Francisco, Silver Image Gallery Columbus Ohio, Spaces Gallery Cleveland Ohio, Lubbock Fine Arts Center Texas, Guggenheim Gallery California, Berkeley Arts Center, and the Richmond Arts Center. As an educator, he was a participant in 'Contemporary California Photography' an exhibition for the Society of Photographic Education in New York.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> Ken feels a sense of urgency to keep with his abilities to communicate visually. In his personal work, he thinks making pictures will hold people, things, and moments longer to lend interest beyond the obvious and engage and enliven the viewers aesthetic sensibilities.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> </p> </span> <div> Ken Perkins Photography / Editorial and Commercial Photography, including event photography in Northern California. </body> ]]>