Curt Richter’s portraits reveal insights into his sitters beyond the visible surface. His ability to connect to his subjects is apparent in their faces, and their candor makes evident the trust he gains. He approaches portraiture with the belief that a photograph can steal a bit of a subject’s soul. The intention with all his photographs, regardless of the subject matter, is to create a storyline. The narrative thread that bonds 'Thousand Words' is the Key West Literary Seminar. There is probably no island in the world that holds the literary heritage that Key West can claim. For the last eight years, Richter has photographed anyone involved with the seminar willing to sit for a portrait, and this series documents a slice of time in a community with a long history.

Curt Richter was born and raised in New York City and picked up his first camera at the age of 12. Those streets, movie theaters, and museums were a fertile playground for anyone hoping to become an artist. He has received many grants and commissions including a Guggenheim Fellowship and commissions from the N.E.A. and N.E.H. His prints are in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. His first monograph, A Portrait of Southern Writers, was published in 2000. He moved to Finland as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1997 and continues to work and live in New York and Helsinki.

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