Terri weifenbach bio

American photographer Terri Weifenbach’s long-term series is a luminous photographic consideration of atmospheric phenomena, visual perception and life on Earth.

For over thirty years, Terri Weifenbach has built a dense photographic opus that studies different aspects of the natural world - gardens, insects, flowers, clouds, water, birds, forests - and their unobtrusive, daily interactions with humans. Rather than seek overt signs of a dramatically changed landscape, Weifenbach has always been drawn to quieter subjects and, through her more than 20 publications and 50 exhibitions organized in the US, Japan and Europe, Weifenbach has developed a precise and lyrical signature, often recognizable by her mastery of the bokeh or sfumato play of blur and sharp within an image.

Without a specific geographical identity, Terri Weifenbach's photographs presented at Galerie Miranda recount a collective space, of land and sky, sun and clouds, but also cities and town gardens. Her underlying philosophy is inspired by the great English historian Simon Schama, whose landmark book Landscape and Memory explored the myths, memories, and obsessions that underlie the Western world's interaction with nature.

Terri Weifenbach is an American fine-art photographer, living in Paris.

Like Schama, Terri Weifenbach is not an activist but a messenger, informing us and sharing her reverence for the natural world; reminding us of the great beauty that is in danger and that we must strive to preserve. She now lives in Paris. Her immersive approach characterizes a work that is mainly interested in nature and our perception of it.

The creation and design of books holds a major place in her photographic practice. Since the publication in of her first book In Your Dreams, she has designed twenty others including, among these recent publications, Between Maple and Chestnut and Gift, co-signed with the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi. Terri Weifenbach received the Guggenheim Prize in Skip to content.