Foto Friday – Robin Terry’s golden days

May 13, 2011 - 10:39 PM by Rachel Neiman

Most fine-art photographers — if they still work in darkrooms — do their black and white images on silver-emulsion paper. For his part, photographer Robin (Rani) Terry finds that gold tone — also called orotone — better suits the sun-bleached fields around Moshav Mata where he lives.

Terry, a Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design graduate, makes his living as an industrial photographer with a specialty in aerial shoots. Off the job, he wanders close to the ground through the trees, tall grass, weeds that, seen through his lens, take on a special beauty…

Some are almost humanlike in form…

The reddish-gold of the emulsion provides an astounding depth of field…

And brings out endless details, fine as a cactus needle, fluffy as a cloud…

While gold’s yellow qualities echo the heat of the dry summer days…

And the sultry summer nights…

Terry’s observations of Mata are a long-term project with no end in sight. He has exhibited these works both solo and together with wife Vered Terry, a very talented artist whose paintings take inspiration from her husband’s photographs. More images from the Mata series can be viewed online.

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