Kurt Hegre

Kurt Hegre Documentary photography

Going through the archives tonight. Excuse the crappy scans. This is from Jan 1991. A women protesting the Gulf War is h...
03/20/2020

Going through the archives tonight. Excuse the crappy scans. This is from Jan 1991. A women protesting the Gulf War is helped after she was tear gassed in San Francisco.

I've been doing less candid photography and that needs to change. Tonight I had a little time with some wonderful light ...
08/06/2017

I've been doing less candid photography and that needs to change. Tonight I had a little time with some wonderful light while waiting to pick up my sister Samantha Hegre at the airport.I wish I would have made a better picture of the girl with the flowers. But that light..

Spent the day watching the people watching the Glory Hole at Lake Berryessa.
02/26/2017

Spent the day watching the people watching the Glory Hole at Lake Berryessa.

Another blast from the past. My mother is British and I was born in the UK as well so I know how much the English love t...
01/21/2017

Another blast from the past. My mother is British and I was born in the UK as well so I know how much the English love their cup of tea. While walking the streets of London I found this scene. Gotta love a person who can't drive without a spot of tea.

One thing I noticed about the rural areas around Fresno is how isolated they are from signs of life outside agriculture...
01/20/2017

One thing I noticed about the rural areas around Fresno is how isolated they are from signs of life outside agriculture. The farms can be massive, stretching for miles. Depending on the time of year it can resemble a desert with nothing but a road stretching as far as you can see. When I was in school I would go on long solo drives on the west side of Fresno County and soon fell in love with the dry landscape and the small towns filled with workers and their families from Mexico and Central America. I wish I would have done a better job in photographing these people and places. My colleagues Matt Black, Hector Amezcua, and Antonio Olmos all have great work on these communities. I was just passing through and learning to shoot color in that shadowless landscape. I miss it and can't wait to get back. With better control of the light this time.

I am going through my boxes and boxes of old negs. I've got stuff dating back to high school. I will begin the long proc...
01/20/2017

I am going through my boxes and boxes of old negs. I've got stuff dating back to high school. I will begin the long process of scanning some of the negs over the next few months (with help from Gary Kazanjian). It will be interesting to see the growth from my early days struggling with exposure and film processing in to what I hope is a better but still growing body of work.
I'm gonna post a few tonight, including the picture that launched my career. My first week at my first internship at the Gilroy Dispatch I was totally overwhelmed by 7-10 assignments a day and wasn't feeling like I had control of my pictures. On Saturday one of my 6 assignments was a parade in Morgan City, Ca. Parades are difficult to shoot and I was struggling to find enough pictures to fill a photo page. I saw this rag tag band coming my way and noticed that everyone in the group was wearing a different outfit and they were playing different songs. Then the leader of the group, a large, barefoot, bearded guy wearing a diaper and playing a wooden flute began to march toward and then across a pile of recently deposited pile of horse crap. In bare feet. I went into auto mode and made three quick frames of the bizarre band.
This was before digital cameras so I had no idea if I had gotten the picture or if it was a good as I hoped. I had 5 other assignments to attend to before I could get back to the office and develop the film and make prints.
I was happy to find the picture on my film but I wasn't sure my editors were going to be as receptive. Small town papers tend to be conservative to appease their readers. I printed the picture and showed it to my editor, who laughed and then told me he would run it 4 columns on a picture page.
The picture won several awards and got the attention of several bigger newspapers. It was the one picture that people always commented on in my student portfolio and helped me get work at larger papers. My favorite comment on the picture came from a friend who said it reminded him of a Fellini film.

Godzilla p**n.
09/04/2016

Godzilla p**n.

I'm not sure if this is part of the Sacramento Kings new PR campaign or if this guy just loves his team.
09/04/2016

I'm not sure if this is part of the Sacramento Kings new PR campaign or if this guy just loves his team.

Floating
08/29/2016

Floating

I'm looking through old eyes.
08/29/2016

I'm looking through old eyes.

Never trust a man who won't wear a hat.
08/04/2016

Never trust a man who won't wear a hat.

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