Plus a custom kit housed in a handmade Japanese paper folder featuring a newly designed brand mark.
Inside are two signed and numbered 6×8 Hahnemühle Photo Rag photographs, including KING I, the
photograph along with a vellum interleaf and a signed Certificate of Authenticity. The edition is limited to five
complete sets, each created by hand and available exclusively to the collectors who acquire this photographs.
Bio:
Butch Quick is an award-winning photographer based in Norwalk, Connecticut, and a compelling force in contemporary street portraiture. With more than 20 years of professional experience in graphic design, illustration, branding, and package design, he has shifted his primary focus in recent years to photography. Rather than capturing candid street moments, Butch engages directly with his subjects, creating authentic connections that translate into intimate, soul-bearing portraits. His approach blends spontaneity with intention, resulting in imagery that feels both immediate and deeply considered. Clean and minimal in composition, his work carries a cinematic sensibility inspired by masters such as Gordon Parks, Jamel Shabazz, Roy DeCarava, Richard Avedon, Gregory Heisler, Helmut Newton, Ellen Graham, HelenLevitt, Peter Lindbergh, and Herb Ritts.
His photographs have been exhibited in numerous prestigious juried shows, including the Carriage Barn Arts Center, Rowayton Arts Center, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Howland Cultural Center, Norwalk Artspace, and Schellhardt Gallery. He also presented the solo exhibition CUBA, a collection of award-winning photographs, at Artsee Gallery.
Statement:
I am drawn to people — to the quiet strength in their posture, the stories resting just beneath the surface, the fleeting expressions that reveal something unguarded and true.
Though my roots are in graphic design, illustration, branding, and package design, photography has become my most direct and human form of communication. After more than two decades of working in visual disciplines built on structure and intention, I found myself craving something more immediate — an exchange rather than a composition. The street became my studio. I do not chase candid moments from a distance. Instead, I approach, I engage, I listen. The connection is the work. What happens between two strangers in that brief space of trust is what shapes the portrait. My goal is not to document a person’s appearance, but to honor their presence. Influenced by the cinematic honesty of Gordon Parks and Roy DeCarava, the directness of Richard Avedon, and the emotional clarity of Peter Lindbergh and Herb Ritts, I strive for images that are clean and restrained yet layered with feeling. I am less interested in spectacle and more interested in truth.
