This week country music singer Kenny Rogers passed away at the age of 81. Coming across my news feed tonight was an item I did not know about; Kenny Rogers was also a photographer who released a few books and earned an honorary degree from the PPA,and was trained by professionals.
This is an older interview with Rogers about his photography, and is linked from the article above, but it goes deeper into who he trained with, includes some interesting quotes, and seems to be the basis for much of the Guardian article.
Here's his Instagram account, mixed in with the usual PR type stuff are shots that Rogers took.
'Remarkably talented': the epic photography of Kenny Rogers
Looming mountains, ghostly presidents, trees that stand like gods … the country star was a trained photographer – and his brooding images caught the sinister side of America
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This is an older interview with Rogers about his photography, and is linked from the article above, but it goes deeper into who he trained with, includes some interesting quotes, and seems to be the basis for much of the Guardian article.
Kenny Rogers … the photographer
He's played Carnegie Hall and Bonnaroo, and his song “The Gambler” spawned a series of hit TV movies and launched his second career as an actor on TV and in motion pictures. Yet Kenny Rogers, owner of one of the most recognizable voices in country or pop music history, once told Billboard magazine, “I've never…
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Here's his Instagram account, mixed in with the usual PR type stuff are shots that Rogers took.
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