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"Tea Pot and Wild Currant", gelatin silver (20" x 24"), 1991 Omaha, NE - "I do not photograph what is fashionable, but rather I photograph for the thing itself -- for the photograph -- without regard to anything other than personal aesthetic satisfaction." Born in Omaha, Kent Klima graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Klima taught instrumental music for three years before he began to pursue a career in photography. In 1984, Klima left teaching and took a job as a photographer with an advertising agency. Twelve days after beginning his new career, he was in an automobile accident that resulted in a serious head injury. Klima now requires the use of a wheelchair, but does not let that stand in his way of pursuing his passion for photography. His work was first exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum in 1977. Since that time, he has enjoyed numerous one-man exhibitions at various locations throughout the country, including Omaha, Lincoln, Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, Fort Worth, and Washington, D.C. KlimaÕs works are part of several private collections in addition to the permanent collections of the Sheldon Memorial Art Museum in Lincoln, the National Historic Trust Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Moscow Studio Theatre in Russia. Klima is currently doing freelance and architectural photography with credits in public relations, photojournalism, documentary, artistic illustration and photo decor.
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