Photography Atelier

Terry Bleser

Searching for a Sense of Home
I recently moved to a new part of the country, far from what is familiar to me. I have a cozy comfortable house, but for me home extends beyond a house and out into the natural environment. I’ve been roaming around the county with my camera feeling like an outsider — looking for an understanding from the land. Searching for an understanding of how people relate to the land — as a way of redefining home for myself. As I roam, I find myself returning to some places over and over again.

The marshes and pine woods draw me to them because they both beckon and repel. They can be beautiful, fanciful, thorny, and impenetrable all as one. I feel my roots taking hold.

Artist Bio

As a child, Terry Bleser spent many hours in the neighboring woods climbing trees, running wild, and studying the resident creatures. The natural world was a refuge for exploring her external and internal worlds. As an adult she gravitated to capturing with a camera the sense of ordinary quiet places like those of her youth. Her photography serves as a means for personal exploration and advocacy for the natural world.

Terry’s background in graphic arts, painting, printmaking, and the sciences informs how she sees the world and interprets it through photography. She has extensive training in photography from the Corcoran School of Art, New England School of Photography, Maine Media Workshops, and the Griffin Museum.

Terry has exhibited at PhotoPlace Gallery, SE Center for Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography, Danforth Museum of Art, and Gallery One in Boston. Her work has also appeared in magazines, and brochures in support of local conservation groups. She currently resides in Cambridge, Maryland.

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