Artist Spotlight - Ted Fryberger — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Professionally, I’m an ocean, mechanical, electrical, and software engineer. While I’m mostly a self-taught photographer and graphic artist; I have taken numerous photography & graphic arts courses. My interest in photography began with a passion for the subject matter.

AT Cascade Brook Trail, 2025, poster archival print, 50.8x91.4

The most beautiful things I have ever seen are: coral reefs; snow covered wilderness; and many spectacular mountains, forests, deserts, canyons, rivers, lakes, and seashores. These are the subjects of my photography: from wide angle multi-shot, multi-exposure panoramas, through detailed portraits, down to tiny macro subjects. My work spans both film and digital capture.

Banded Coral Shrimp at Night, 1987, archival photograph, 50.8x76.2

These photographs were taken on wilderness backpacking, backcountry skiing, scuba diving, and hiking trips I‘ve done or led over the past thirty years. I’ve also created a “Celebration of Trails” (COT) which is a digital show of over 300 graphic art posters, and dozens of large format panoramas, created from trip photographs and maps. I created COT during the depths of the Covid shutdown.

Coral Polyps at Night, 1995, archival photograph, 50.8x76.2

I have exhibited photographs and posters at local Columbia, MD art shows, Artexpo New York, and online galleries: Alessandro-Berni, Artavita, Arthouse - Balance, Teravarna 6th Water, and Masterful Minds 5.

Darwin Canyon, 2017, archival panorama photograph, 76.2x152.4

Artist Statement

I want my photographs & graphic arts posters to capture and display the raw, wild beauty of the natural world. These photographs were taken on wilderness backpacking, backcountry skiing, scuba diving, and hiking trips I‘ve done or led over the past thirty years. My goal: seek & protect wilderness through sharing these images.

Evolution Basin - Sapphire Lake, 2012, archival panorama photograph, 60.9x152.4

I live and work in Columbia, MD and travel throughout North America, Central America, and Europe for wilderness trips and photography. Multiday wilderness trips allow me to get in touch with how our primitive human ancestors must have lived where there were no alternatives to the wild natural world.

Fairy Falls - Yellowstone, 2013, archival photograph, 50.8x76.2

Primarily I like to create large format panoramas by shooting multi-image. multi-exposure shots with a wide angle lens. But I also shoot more tightly focused single composition details, and macros – for the most intimate details of small subjects.

Falling Water, 2011, archival panorama photograph, 139.7x43.2

These techniques allow me to capture, with a camera, what the human eye can see from super wide to the most minute. When I’m looking at these large panoramas, hanging on the wall, I feel like “I’m there”! Photographs can be printed at sizes other than those listed.

https://www.TedFrybergerPhotography.com
https://www.artsy.net/partner/alessandro-berni-gallery/artists/ted-fryberger
https://www.artavita.com/artists/29047-ted-fryberger
https://assets.artplacer.com/virtual-exhibitions/?i=3246
https://www.teravarna.com/winners-2024-water-6?lightbox=comp-lzl2ojpc_runtime_comp-lzl2ojpcitems15 https://wwab.us/masterful-minds-5/