Ted Orland

And Lo! They Beheld a Star in the (Near) East

The Last Cowboy
Little House on the Freeway
Getting Ready for Summer
Lighthouse #18
Lone Palm


Ted Orland, photograph by Allison Smith

...I'm afraid I really don't lead a fine-grained life. More often, I think, life is what happens while you're trying to set up your tripod. But my little $10 Holga camera sees the world just the way I do, capturing life en passant..And so I carry it with me most everywhere, photographing pretty much whatever crosses my path. My theory is that if you lead an interesting life, you'll make interesting art. (How could it be otherwise?)

After the shutter clicks, however, I work at the other end of the technical spectrum, scanning the color negatives into my Macintosh, finessing their tonal values in Photoshop, and printing them using archival pigmented inks on my Epson 7600 printer.

I print most of my photographs to 16x16 " in limited, numbered editions of twenty-five (and occasionally also as mural-sized prints in a separate edition of twenty-five). I also often make small prints (up to 11x11") available in an open-ended edition.



or visit Ted Orland's Studio
at http://www.tedorland.com/