Paul
Kozal
Photography

Each of us, at some time, has encountered a person or place that at once disarms our senses, seemingly transcending reality.
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Biography

Paul Kozal, a self-taught photographer, has been devoting his life to the...
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Articles

The Decisive Moment of the Landscape Photo Techniques March/April 2007 Scott Lewis

Many black-and-white photographers aim for the perfect exposures and razor-sharp negatives of Ansel Adams and the f/64 school, hoping to make large prints from them. Paul Kozal has a different viewpoint. He draws his inspiration from...

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Photos As Pretty As A Postcard Austin American Statement XLENT Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Paul Kozal fell in love with old postcards of the American West that he picked up on antiquing junkets with his parents. "I like the exaggerated colors of the landscape, the way the scenes transformed you, took you someplace else," he says. But then something happened when Kozal saw the same landscapes in person during family vacations. "They didn't look like the postcards," he says in disappointment.

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Spotlight on Paul Kozal B & W Magazine Rupert Jenkin

Paul Kozal moved from Chicago to San Francisco in 1996, but his admiration of the western landscape dates back to his first road trip in 1989. Up to that time, he had done little in the way of landscape photography. After 1989, however, Kozal, a self-taught photographer, was inspired to travel west as often as possible, taking trips that often lasted up to six months. During these trips, he amassed a large number of studies, often of the same dunes and buildings, photographed each year in an effort to capture the constantly shifting values of light.

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