Kevin Abosch, Irish born biologist turned professional photographer, is known amongst high-level excecutives and the entertainment elite for his portraits. A simple quote starts at $150,000 and it can easily arrive at 500,000 if commercial licences are needed.
But one of his most pricey photos isn’t of a Silicon Valley CEO, Steven Spielberg or Johnny Depp. The pic is called “Potato #345″ (2010) and it was on his Paris studio when one of his patrons spotted it. When asked to buy it, Kevin set the price just above the million dollar mark, to which the customer agreed, making the spud pic one of the 20 photographies most expensive of all times.
On one occasion he described the way he sees himself and his work: “Before I see myself as an artist or a photographer, I see myself as an anthropologist in the body of a conceptual artist who happens to work with a camera.”
His exhibition Faces of Ireland, which displayed 250 pictures of faces of Irish people, including some very famous ones on the walls of Dublin Airport, was a total succes.