about the trout
KT in Montreal QC. 2007.
photo: Lorena Drey.
kreddible trout is:
- a photographic artist/satirist
- a brazen idealist.
- a recovering poet.
- a well traveled former vagabond.
- not a Kurt Vonnegut allusion (but thanks for asking).
- the artistic pseudonym of William Foley.
- a club sandwich enthusiast.
- giggling at the back of the class.
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'Kreddible Trout' was born in a bout of mild
chickenshittedness and a need for certain anonymity
moments before his first poetry reading many years ago.
The artistic pseudonym stuck with the masonic fortitude
of gum under a school desk, and has clung on long since
'the poetry thing' became tiresome. Kreddible Trout is
mostly a photographic artist these days, though words
still play a role and often try to upstage the photos.
(There's an occasional fight... a lot of egos over here.)
Self taught, Mr. Trout has been 'photographically inclined' since before digital came along still approaches a photo through the viewfinder (the one for your eye), rather than the photo-editing software. The majority of the time cropping is done using his patented technique: 'where I stand in relation to the subject & how I hold my camera'™.
His one lesson, years ago, was when a friend told him to be careful not to take a picture with 'a tree or a stop sign growing out of someone's head': composition. His real teacher was his beloved Pentax K1000, who patiently showed him the ropes while he wandered some very questionable alleys in Vancouver and Montreal in the early days of the millennium.
Admittedly, KT did take one photography seminar in 2009 that was 2% photography and 98% marketing. He spent most of his time over the three day workshop throwing up, crying on his soul and watching Bill Hicks videos on his laptop. Art wasn't mentioned there. Money was. Frequently. And how to stand out as a photographer by wearing interesting socks...
Kreddible Trout Photographic Artstuffs™ adorn walls all over the world. Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Halifax, San Diego, San Fransisco, Los Angeles... and um... some other places. He's done several Large Scale Photographic Installations for offices and is often found in the garage bashing and cursing things together with hammers and adhering photos to them in a bit of mad science he likes to call 'Uniquely Mounted Photogrphic Artstuffs'™. He's very happy doing it, despite the curses.
When asked 'what kind of photography' he does, KT usually hums & haws and settles on 'observational satire influenced by too much rock & roll'. The less cryptic have called what he does 'urban landscapes', 'abstractions' and '...um...in-teresting'. Preferring lucky accident to the contrived, situations are never altered or 'set up' in order to 'make a point'.
The world does this well enough on it's own.
KT just documents it for his own amusement and hopefully yours.
- a photographic artist/satirist
- a brazen idealist.
- a recovering poet.
- a well traveled former vagabond.
- not a Kurt Vonnegut allusion (but thanks for asking).
- the artistic pseudonym of William Foley.
- a club sandwich enthusiast.
- giggling at the back of the class.
_______________________________________________________
'Kreddible Trout' was born in a bout of mild
chickenshittedness and a need for certain anonymity
moments before his first poetry reading many years ago.
The artistic pseudonym stuck with the masonic fortitude
of gum under a school desk, and has clung on long since
'the poetry thing' became tiresome. Kreddible Trout is
mostly a photographic artist these days, though words
still play a role and often try to upstage the photos.
(There's an occasional fight... a lot of egos over here.)
Self taught, Mr. Trout has been 'photographically inclined' since before digital came along still approaches a photo through the viewfinder (the one for your eye), rather than the photo-editing software. The majority of the time cropping is done using his patented technique: 'where I stand in relation to the subject & how I hold my camera'™.
His one lesson, years ago, was when a friend told him to be careful not to take a picture with 'a tree or a stop sign growing out of someone's head': composition. His real teacher was his beloved Pentax K1000, who patiently showed him the ropes while he wandered some very questionable alleys in Vancouver and Montreal in the early days of the millennium.
Admittedly, KT did take one photography seminar in 2009 that was 2% photography and 98% marketing. He spent most of his time over the three day workshop throwing up, crying on his soul and watching Bill Hicks videos on his laptop. Art wasn't mentioned there. Money was. Frequently. And how to stand out as a photographer by wearing interesting socks...
Kreddible Trout Photographic Artstuffs™ adorn walls all over the world. Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Halifax, San Diego, San Fransisco, Los Angeles... and um... some other places. He's done several Large Scale Photographic Installations for offices and is often found in the garage bashing and cursing things together with hammers and adhering photos to them in a bit of mad science he likes to call 'Uniquely Mounted Photogrphic Artstuffs'™. He's very happy doing it, despite the curses.
When asked 'what kind of photography' he does, KT usually hums & haws and settles on 'observational satire influenced by too much rock & roll'. The less cryptic have called what he does 'urban landscapes', 'abstractions' and '...um...in-teresting'. Preferring lucky accident to the contrived, situations are never altered or 'set up' in order to 'make a point'.
The world does this well enough on it's own.
KT just documents it for his own amusement and hopefully yours.
