Walter Atkins
Walter Atkins is an awarding winning photographer,writer and blogger in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Me
Walter Atkins is an awarding
winning photographer
and writer in the San Francisco
Bay Area.
He was a staff photographer and
restaurant critic
for Seattle’s Jazz NW, The Finer
Things, and
Big Fun Magazines covering the
Pacific Northwest
arts,music and entertainment
scene. Born
in San Francisco, Walter
developed an eclectic
taste in music. He saw and
enjoyed diverse
artists
like Les McCann, Dizzy Gillespie,
Sun Ra, McCoy
Tyner, Carlos Santana, Phyllis
Hyman, Sly &
The Family Stone, Weather Report,
Aretha
Franklin, Return To Forever, Miles
Davis, The
Moody Blues, The Chambers
Brothers, Confunkshun,
Grateful Dead, and many others.
Walter’s photography has been
exhibited at SF's Lush
Life Gallery and the Joyce Gordon
Gallery in
downtown Oakland. KCSM-Jazz 91
has featured his
work for The Jazz On The Hill
concert.
View my photography gallery at:
http://walteratkinsgallery.com
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