For this section of this award, I always choose photographs that I feel would benefit from the collotype process. In this photograph, the grey tones blend into the black so beautifully, and it has charms which tickle the souls of artisans. The street lamps and a neon sign casts a light on a road wet with rain. Headlights of a car are the only things moving in this image of a silent town in the middle of the night and these subtle observations make this work impressive. There is one technique used in the collotype process where the image is created by printing over and over again with different colours but only using one gelatin plate. I feel that technique would be effective for this work. This is a beautiful photograph which I feel a desire to print in collotype.

– Osamu Yamamoto Master Printer, Benrido Collotype Atelier

Bio

In an era that celebrates modernity and conformity, Teri seeks the simple, stripped down remnants of a nearly forgotten America – embers still smouldering in the rubble of modern society, soon to be snuffed out and backfilled by the franchised proliferation of homogeneity. Yet through her photographs they remain indelible, standing as beacons of resistance, and luminous symbols of cultural dissent. After studying photojournalism at the University of Texas and serving as an intern at the Magnum photo agency in New York, Teri developed her printmaking skills in darkrooms. Teri currently lives in rural Colorado with her husband Mike. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and published in the Huffington Post, The London Sunday Times, The Sun Magazine, Photo District News and on the NPR website. She believes that a historian’s training in focusing on the hazy texture of remote time while being grounded in the present moment helps her expand the borders of everyday perception. Her photography is about the hidden side of everyday life – the symbols, meanings and illusive worlds discovered and constructed through reflection and imagination.