Terry Thompson bio

Terry’s background in photography includes an art education at the legendary School of Visual Arts in N.Y.C., working with artists as diverse as Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Gary Winogrand and Tad Yamashiro. Graduate work was with the San Francisco Art Institute, with the top West coast artists, including Linda Conner, Wynn Bullock, Pirkle Jones and Jack Fulton. He was one of the first photographic artists to revive the Platinum print process in the 1960’s and his prints are represented in the collections of the Hallie Ford Museum, Portland Art Museum, Ruth Bernhard, Emmit Gowen, Bostick & Sullivan, Henk Pander, Dianne Kornberg and Steve Josefsberg. He and his wife Kathleen Malan Thompson moved to Portland Oregon in 1992 to form with Steven Josefsberg the renowned photographic art gallery, the S.K. Josefsberg Studio. Terry’s work is currently represented by the Augen Gallery in Portland, Oregon.