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During the past twenty years, Ted Hendrickson's photographs have explored the nature of landscape as image. Ranging from the man made scene of the built environment to the wooded and coastal landscape that comprises what is left of "Nature" in Southern New England, Hendrickson's personal views can be simultaneously poetic, comic, tragic or mysterious.
Current interests include working on a series of "portraits" of local glacial erratic boulders left behind by the melting edge of the Wisconsin Ice Sheet some 18,000 years ago. Also ongoing is a group of large panoramic landscape images formed from three connected (triptych) wide angle photographs that encompass 190° field of view. These sharp focus, documentary style images concentrate on the local landscape in transition. Another continuing project involves the landscape of Ireland, exploring both mystical and mundane aspects of this ancient land. A fly fishing enthusiast, Henrdrickson's Fly Fishing for Striped Bass series is a visual diary of the angler's landscape and fishing figure.
A native of New London, Connecticut, Ted Hendrickson studied photography at the University of Connecticut with William E. Parker where he received BA and MFA degrees, and at Rhode Island School of Design with Harry Callahan where he earned a Master's degree in Art Education. Hendrickson's work has been featured nationally in numerous one-person and group exhibitions. He received a commission from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts to photograph the towns of New London County for permanent exhibition at the New London County Court House. His work is included in many prestigious public and private collections. Hendrickson teaches Photography and the History of Photography at Connecticut College, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art.
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