About
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.” – John Ruskin
I am a documentary and fine art photographer who has been crafting images since I was a boy. I always carry a camera of some sort – cellphone, pocket camera, SLR – to capture and preserve what I see. One common critique of photography is that it can distract us from being fully present in the current moment – “You’re not really experiencing the world when you’re looking through a lens.” As a long-time Buddhist student and meditator, photography has the opposite effect for me: rather than using viewfinder and lens to distance myself from the world, I use the camera to encourage close attention to the here and now that might otherwise go unnoticed. Each of my photographs is a deliberate act of presence and observation, to encourage my own and the viewer’s full attention.
I have photographed for a wide range of media outlets, including USA Today, SFist, The Frisc, and Mission Local. My art photography has been exhibited at Sausalito Center for the Arts, Drawing Room Gallery, ArtSpan, Room & Board, Lindsay Dirks Brown Gallery, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, and City Art Gallery, and is held in more than a dozen private collections around the country.
Exhibitions
- Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA, group exhibition “Tides of Change,” January-February 2022
- ArtSpan, San Francisco, CA, juried auction, April 2022
- Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA, group exhibition, May 2022
- ArtSpan, San Francisco, CA, juried auction, March 2023
- Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, group exhibition “Spanning the Gate,” July 2023
- Four Chicken Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group exhibition “Salon des Refusés,” August 2023
- City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group exhibition, February 2024
- City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group exhibition, July 2024
- Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA, group exhibition “Home,” January-February 2024 (video of Ted’s artist talk)
- Room & Board, San Francisco, CA, group exhibition, October 2024
- City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group exhibition, November 2024
- Lindsay Dirks Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA, juried group exhibition – silver award winner, November 2024
- Lindsay Dirks Brown Gallery, San Ramon, CA, solo exhibition, February 2025
Collectors
Individual works are in the collections of:
- Norman Bonney and Gail Kurtz
- Nova Davidson
- Ivonne Guerrero
- Martin Hagfors
- Jenny Hughes and Ross Hughes
- Lisa Farbstein Miller
- Tyrone Cornelius Miller
- Harry Oltmans
- Kelsey Poleyeff
- David Schnee and Cynthia Stone
- Caryl Taylor
- Sally Towse
- Diane Warner-Wang and Pat Wang
- The Wolf Family
For prints, commissions or questions, please contact Ted directly.