… “and I know my life / would look all right / if I could see it on the silver screen”*
*James Dean – Songwriters: Jackson Browne / Glenn Frey / Donald Henley / John Souther
…“or at least in newsprint” – Todd Kunstman
Our local newspaper wrote this story about our 65th business anniversary!
They also sent a photographer to photograph a photographer photographing. I was photographing Josephine Bartlein, a high school senior, at the time. Here are a few of her images mixed in with some of the aforementioned photographs:
All these images were created right here at KenMar’s private, exclusive, professionally landscaped photo-park, or in the largest camera room in the Fox Cities.
Here are a few of the other images we created on that day:
Have you seen a man with long blond hair riding a moped like a speed demon?
That’s Todd Kunstman, a photographer who just turned 65 years old and runs his own portrait studio, KenMar Photography, that also turns 65 this year.
Interesting fact: A cop stopped him on his 65th birthday because he was “driving his moped like he’d stolen it.”
Also a fact: Neither the business nor the man intend to slow down.
KenMar was started by his parents Ken and Margaret around the time he was born. Today it’s a large photo studio with 2 acres of park-like grounds and a stream used for portrait settings at 1120 N. Hickory Farm Lane, an industrial part of Grand Chute.
Here, a chat with one of the more colorful photographers in the Fox Cities.
