Paul Schiek

Paul Schiek

the San Francisco underground
www.tbwbooks.com

interview and portrait by JIM GOLDBERG

 

JIM GOLDBERG — You’ve gone from studying photography, then mainly making and showing your own work, to now mainly showing other people’s work and supporting their projects. I know you’ve struggled to balance a professional art career and running a professional publishing company. Is your company TBW Books now the main focus?
PAUL SCHIEK — I think of myself as having three full-time jobs: an artist who makes work with photographs; a publisher; and the manager of Mike Brodie’s work, finances, and business affairs [see Mike Brodie’s work on page 402]. The management has been full steam ahead for the last two years, so I’ve had to fill in the cracks with publishing and, if there’s any time after that, with my own work. It’s totally backward from how I want it,…