Teresa Neptune Studio/Gallery
Street Photography by Teresa Neptune.
Background
Artist Statement
Inspiration
Teresa Neptune first picked up the camera as a teenager living in Paris. She took to the street with her father's Pentax loaded with Tri-X film and began her lifelong love of black-and-white, street photography.
Her photographs have been reviewed in B&W Magazine, CameraArts, and the New York Times wrote up her "Flooded Desert" exhibition as the best in Santa Fe in 2007. Her work is in the permanent collections of The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC, The State of NM - Art in Public Places, The Historic Santa Fe Foundation and US Equities, among others. (more)
Inspiration
Artist Statement
Inspiration
"My work is basically street photography even when the street becomes a trail or disappears altogether. My joy is to capture fleeting relationships that exist for one moment and are gone forever."
-Teresa Neptune
"If mystery is manifest through all things, the Universe becomes, as it were, a holy picture. You are always addressing the transcendent mystery through the conditions of your actual world"
- Joseph Campbell
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
As an encroaching high tech world threatens to engulf our senses at every turn the elegant simplicity of black and white photographs give us a reprieve, a moment of refuge. The lure of simplicity itself compels me to capture simple moments: ironies, juxtapositions shadow and light that exist for one second and are gone forever, As these moments are preserved in the imagery we are given a second chance to glimpse the fleeting relationships that constantly rearrange to make up the next moment and the next.These photographs invite us to pause and become aware of the miraculous beauty that surrounds us. Beauty as simple, complex and transient as life itself.
-Teresa Neptune