Walter Briski, Jr.

I was born in Brazil, on July 6th, 1967 and raised in a little town called Vinhedo, near São Paulo. I grew up in family of one brother and two sisters. I remember being fascinated by music at very early age and I also remember being introduced to Ray Conniff, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach and Carpenters. Another passion of mine, besides music, has always been photography, and I worked as a photographer in Brazil, for many years, but it wasn't until I turned twenty-five that I moved to New York City. I wanted to assist Bruce Weber, though he hooked me up with Interview Magazine, when I knocked at his studio, looking for a job. "You are talented and should have a bright future. Just keep taking pictures... I haven't been to Rio in a long time and seeing these beautiful pictures, it made me realize how much I missed Rio and Brazil and its people." So, after a few weeks, I got a call from Interview magazine, while I was working as a busboy, and after my first assignment, Chris O'Donnell, I shot Kevin Smith, Carole King, and some others, in between many other different jobs, assisting different photographers, including David Allison, who was working for The Metropolitan Museum, doing a book on The Herter Brothers furniture... But it wasn't until a few years ago that I became a master black and white printer and had the privilege to work with the photographers: Gordon Parks, Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, James Nachtwey, Ellen Von Unwerth, Antonin Kratochvil, Flip Schulke, Annie Leibovitz, Matthew Barney -- for his solo show at the Guggenheim Museum -- and a few others. But when digital photography came along, I studied digital photography at School of Visual Arts and got a great gallery to rep me: "ClampArt".
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