More about Ted Rigoni
Ted Rigoni’s art photography is a weave of themes that explore our shared Western American Landscapes.
His images are usually devoid of photojournalism or short story; they are visual novellas. Thematically, he enjoys capturing the thunder of rail freighters rumbling under slanty desert sunsets and dim moonlight. He’s mesmerized by the bits of metal that man abandons, pieces that oxidize and form components to be transformed into new art to share. The cool greens that saturate our rainforests in summer and the chill starlight playing the Navajo Sandstones of the Arizona Strip provide a reassuring link to nature's patterns and textures. Ted feels the loneliness of our cities' back alleys and yet revels in the romance of distant streetlights playing on the flinty spaces of buildings facing away.
As an artist working within the digital photography medium, Ted strives to create images that lift latent thoughts from the recesses of our memories.
If one were to review Ted’s high school yearbook, it would become clear fairly quickly that a "most likely to succeed as an artist" would not be associated with his obligatory high school portrait.
Like many artists who came to the arts from other careers, his route has been circuitous. There have been long stops in the engineering field and work as an active sports photographer, where he developed his deep sense of timing, and an understanding of the emotions associated with capturing the joy of winning and the agony of defeat. Those long hours of sports shooting led to a deeper calling for self-expression, and through additional formal and informal studies, he decided to pursue art photography and sports in parallel, as each genre tiers off and supports the other.
Today, Ted has been honored to be able to share his work in exhibits, galleries, and online shows with collectors and visitors who have stated that the work resonates with them as though it had been lifted from the back channels of their own memories. It is gratifying to know that visual expressions elicit a response in people, responses that are often quite personal for them and for him.