Photo credit: Ryan McGeeney, 2010
Philip Heying is a photographer living in Lawrence, Kansas. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he acquired a passion for photography at a young age, and learned the craft of black & white film and print development while in middle school. Heying graduated with a BFA in Painting in 1983 from the University of Kansas.
While studying art at KU, Heying received the Sterling Scholarship, an Undergraduate Research Award, and sold a number of paintings. During his time in Lawrence, Kansas, Heying met William S. Burroughs and began a friendship that endured until Burroughs’s death in 1997. Burroughs’s circle of friends, from Albert Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg, to Brion Gysin and Timothy Leary provided artistic insight and guidance for Heying, and during this time his focus shifted from painting to photography exclusively.
Soon after college, curiosity to experience another culture led Heying to France, via coal freighter. Paris not only offered him the possibility of learning a new language, but also a new way of looking at the world and building on his photographic sensibilities.
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