TERRY WHEELER is a Photographer based in Chicago, traveling the world with his Leica M6.

Thinking how the world is made

Of rhythm and of rhyme 

Dancing to the poetry

Of gravity and time

A photograph crafted with skill and passion, can reveal the hidden things in our world. Even when color is absent, composition, balance, shadow and texture can achieve works of staggering beauty. These are the black and white photographs that your fathers and grandfathers knew. They capture a point in time that will never be repeated and preserve it in an emulsion of silver and gelatin. The phenomenon that is light can give birth to velvety blacks, subtle shades of grays, and incandescent whites. 

A well composed and printed black and white photograph allows the observer a pathway into the subtleties and the riches of the miraculous. Miracles abound in creation. Some are obvious like the splendor of a sunset, some are sublime and eternal like the workings of time and some are so common as to be taken for granted like light and gravity, music and love. Miracles extend to the art and architecture of Man, to the vast reaches of the universe and to the symmetries of the sub-atomic world. 

Four generations of my family have been passionate about photography. I've been shooting film for about 40 years and shoot with Leica and Nikon. I enjoy the challenges and rewards of doing my own darkroom work. I shoot full frame and strive to pre-visualize how a subject will be transformed into shadows, mid-tones and highlights. The great black and white photographers of the past and present have set down standards of excellence that I try to aspire to.

As well as pursuing photography, I love and play early types of American music.