'Place and Quiet'

'Untitled #6,' (inset) by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

Decades ago, I saw a movie in which one of the central characters was a photographer. This fictional character was shown to have created, at least to my eyes, a wonderful series of black and white images — their common denominator being the absence of people, where clearly, people could have existed. At some point in the movie, a fictional psychologist attempted to use these images to profile the photographer as lonely, introverted, afraid of social interaction, and perhaps, a misanthrope. All I saw, was a series of images that eloquently spoke in the little understood and largely forsaken language of quiet. The photos in that mostly unremarkable movie have informed most of what I pursue in my photography these days. 

— Terry Bell, March 2020

'Untitled #6,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

'Untitled #2,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

'Untitled #3,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

'Untitled #4,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

'Untitled #5,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

'Untitled #6,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

'Untitled #7,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

'Untitled #8,' by Terry Bell, from Place and Quiet (Wild Culture Photo Sequence, Spring 2020).  

TERRY BELL worked for 25 years at various advertising agencies, first as a copy writer and then as creative group head and creative director, receiving many awards for his work, including top honours from the Art Directors Club of New York. In 2004 he moved his family to Halifax and began to pursue his life-long passion for the photographic image. View Terry site.