Thrilled to receive honorable mentions for these two series in the 2016 International Photo Awards.
Honorable Mention – Requiem Buglisi Dance Theatre
View more about the awards and competition here.
Portraits
The Mermaid Parade
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” – Anais Nin
A sea of Mermaids, Mermen and Sea Creatures filled Coney Island Saturday for the 34th annual Mermaid Parade.
The Parade celebrates the sand, the sea, the salt air and the beginning of summer, as well as the history and myths of Coney Island. In hand-made costumes, everyone promenades, sashays and struts riotously down Surf Avenue. It’s an all inclusive affair with participants from infants to octogenarians. It’s part-fantasy, part-escapism, but all real – celebrating the imagination and combining all the eccentricities and joys of artistic self-expression !
The Parade is the largest art parade in the nation and I love it and never miss it if I am in NYC.
Black and White Spider Awards 2015 Winner
The 10th Annual Black and White Spider Awards has selected two of my images as winners in the 2015 juried selection!
Preparing for the Gerewol Festival
Tuareg Nomad Teatime
10TH ANNUAL BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARDS HONORS PHOTOGRAPHER TERRI GOLD FROM THE UNITED STATES
LOS ANGELES December 15, 2015 – Professional photographer Terri Gold of The United States was presented with the 10th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Honorable Mention in the category of Portrait at a prestigious Nomination & Winners PhotoShow webcast Saturday, November 21, 2015.
The live online gala was attended by over 10,000 photography fans around the globe who logged on to watch the climax of the industry’s most important event for black and white photography.
10th Annual Jury members included captains of the industry from Bonhams, Random House, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Stockholm City Museum, Annenberg Foundation, Leo Burnett, FTM Art Advisory and Fratelli Alinari who honored Spider Fellows with 505 coveted title awards in 31 categories.
BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARDS is the leading international award honoring excellence in black and white photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers worldwide and honors the finest images with the highest achievements in black and white photography.
View the entire gallery of images at thespiderawards.com
Regarding Beauty: The Center For Fine Art Photography
I am thrilled to have my photograph “Wodaabe Nomad at the Gerewol” selected to be part of the group exhibition Regarding Beauty. Juried by Kathleen Clark, the exhibit will be shown at The Center For Fine Art Photography March 6 – April 17, 2015; with an artist’s reception on March 6th. I am looking forward to being part of such a unique and beautiful collection of photography!
Omo Valley Work Featured on L’Oeil de la Photographie
Delighted to have more great press on my Omo Valley work – this time from L’Oeil de la Photographie, a daily photo magazine.
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/05/31/the-eye-of-readers/25033/terri-gold-omo-valley
Work from the Omo Featured on Revue Camera
I’m very excited to be featured on Revue Camera, a fabulous French/English photography magazine.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.649021205191611.1073741930.461205963973137&type=1
First Voices Indigenous Radio
I was thrilled and honored to be a guest on WBAI’s First Voices Indigenous Radio this morning with John Kane.
You can hear the program here:
http://www.wbai.org/server-archive.html
Click “Play” or “Download” next to the First Voices Indigenous Radio program on Thursday, April 10th at 9am.
It was wonderful to speak with John, who is so passionate about not only preserving ancient traditions, but seeing traditional societies adapt to our rapidly changing world.
Our cultural diversity is where our greatest creativity lives…
“He who is different from me does not impoverish me – he enriches me. ”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hamar Tribe in the Omo Valley
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Connecting Through Photography
As material and technological improvements replace old traditions in rural village life the cultural impact radiates throughout the community. In the encounters I have when traveling and photographing tribal life there are fleeting moments of connection. We know we are different but similar at the same time. The encounter can lead to a personal connection through photography.
It is this spontaneous connection I am looking for.
Change is coming and is inevitable and the unique traditions that separate our ancient cultures are vanishing. I hope to capture and make images that celebrate our differences and our common threads.
Rajasthan and Gujarat-The Journey Continues
Village Life
- Men In The Village
- Village Schoolgirls
The group would arrive at a village and spread out to see who we could meet and what was the story here.
Village life is quiet in the heat of the day- much of the work is done early in the morning and at the end of the day, so people had time to invite us into
their homes for tea.We met school children everywhere and sometimes would go into the schools and talk to them about where we are from.
By the time we left a village we would have a trail of children and others following us back to the van. It was a good way to connect but often at odds with
creating an unposed photographic moment.
There was curiosity on both sides. The women dress in floating pink and orange chiffon saris no matter
what kind of work they are doing. They are the most colorful part of the harsh desert landscape.
Yet for me , it is often my split toned infrared images, stripped of color, that capture the feel of the land and the rhythm of the life here.
Terri Gold World Imagery 
