About

When I am making photographs is when I feel most alive! I feel like this is what I am supposed to be doing. I don’t just take photographs, I make them!

I began toting around a little plastic rectangular 110 camera when I was still in the single digits. I used to think that the packages the film came in looked like breakfast bar wrappers. I am not sure if that is what initially fueled my desire to make photographs, however. I began photographing everything from nature, family trips, Barbies with their newly shorn haircuts, even my brother dressed up as a girl (I don’t believe he was scarred by this). I just loved to take pictures!

I soon acquired my fathers 35 mm Canon AE-1 and studied photography in high school. I then went on to receive my BFA in photography from The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and my MFA, also in photography, from Cranbrook Academy of Art. During my studies in college I found a love for the 4×5 camera and began photographing scenarios that were a mixture of reality and fantasy.

I have shown my artwork in galleries in many different areas of the country. My favorite show that I was in was at The Detroit Artists Market; the famous media artist Mike Kelley juried it. Here is a review of the show from The Detroit Metro Times. That was so exciting to know that a well renowned artist thought highly of my work!

After school I was turned onto weddings. After shooting a few,  I realized that I could still express my artistic side and make people happy with my photographs at the same time!  What could be more fulfilling then that! I always feel very honored when people choose me to photograph some of their most intimate moments. I feel very grateful that I am able to do something in life that I enjoy!

*photos by Tim Dieterle