[Leica] Kyle Cassidy: Best Travel Photographer of the Year

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

De Stern Magazine, October 16, 2006:

"When measured in terms of pure conceit alone, Kyle Cassidy is the best 
travel photographer of 2006.

'Ive never seen anyone who consistancly votes for his own work with such 
enthusiasm, even in flagarent disregard for the rules of the contest,' said 
Jeri Rudeskil, associate editor for Amature Travel Photographer Magazine, 
'sometimes we'll come into work and see that Kyle has voted, tirelessly, for 
himself for a period of maybe twenty hours in a row, logging thousands of 
votes and catipulting him into the top ten.' The balding editor looks over 
his thick rimmed glasses and adds, 'we usually throw them out, but his 
stamina is amazing.' 

Indeed, Kyle Cassidy's abilty to "toot his own horn" as they say in America 
is legendary. He has been known to put on various elaborate disguises and 
talk about himself at trendy Manhattan parties. Photographer Cindy Sherman 
recounts one such instance:

'He was wearing a false moustache, which was odd, because he had a real one 
sticking out from underneath it. He was wearing a sort of hunch-back and a 
shoe that made one leg about three inches longer than the other. He was 
standing next to me in Anne Liebowitz' kitchen just gushing about how great 
Kyle Cassidy was. If he wasn't such an utter creep, I would find it 
charming.'

Cassidy's recent travel photos of southern Florida in the United States can 
be seen here:

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/travel/2006/florida06/

be prepared, they are absolutly life changing."