Teri Vershel

Musings

Musings is a body of work about contemplation. It’s easy to miss beauty in the daily rush of life but with a camera in my hands, I find myself slowing down, engaging with and pondering the world around me. This is the gift of photography. In my wanderings, I am often drawn to people who themselves may be lost in their thoughts.

Photographer

Teri Vershel

When I was in high school, I was an editor of our yearbook and that is when I fell in love with photography. I got excited when I captured something compelling or amusing. I had my trusty Nikon FE film camera and I took 35 mm Kodachrome slides around home and when I traveled. In college, I pursued a degree in Computer Science, and once I was working in high tech and raising a family, I stopped taking photos. I came back to photography when I was diagnosed with a serious illness. I’ve always thought art can heal and transform and that is what picking up a camera again did for me. It gave me a purpose, a creative outlet and a passion that I hadn’t felt in the high tech world. I immersed myself in learning the digital side of photography and went back to school to earn an A.A. When I was in school, I realized my true passion was photographing people. I find the street to be the perfect place to observe the often delightful and always surprising behavior of our fellow humans. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and often quite beautiful.

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