“The history of landscape photography is rife with men behind cameras attempting to offer the definitive view of a particular land feature,” says Terri Loewenthal (b. 1972), referencing the now-iconic images of Yosemite National Park taken by Ansel Adams and Carleton Watkins. “As a woman seeking to reimagine the genre, my work overlaps multiple vantage points and shifts colours into oversaturated hues, exposing the fallacy of a single objective view and offering a rich, sublime subjectivity in its place.” Every one of her artworks is a single-exposure, in-camera composition – layered, psychedelic and flooded with green, orange, pink, purple and yellow tones. Forests meld into mountains, seas bleed into rock formations – blurring the borderlines between reality and imagination. The art- ist’s works are on view at SOMArts and Heron Arts in San Francisco in late 2025, offering visions of the American landscape like never before. terriloewenthal.com | @lowandtall
Image credits:
1. Terri Loewenthal, Psychscape 845 (Maroon Bells, CO), (2022). Image courtesy of the artist.
2. Terri Loewenthal, Psychscape 602 (White Rock Canyon, AZ), (2018). Image courtesy of the artist.
3. Terri Loewenthal, Grottos 9 (Ute land), (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.
4. Terri Loewenthal, Grottos 6 (Ute land), (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.
5. Terri Loewenthal, Gothic Valley (Ute land), (2023). Image courtesy of the artist
6. Terri Loewenthal, Psychscape 600 (Arizona Hot Springs, AZ ), (2018). Image courtesy of the artist.
7. Terri Loewenthal, Grottos 1 (Ute land), (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.
8. Terri Loewenthal, Grottos 4 (Ute land), (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.
9. Terri Loewenthal, Psychscape 544 (Pyramid Peak, CO), (2022). Image courtesy of the artist.
10. Terri Loewenthal, Marin Seashore (Coast Miwok land), (2025). Image courtesy of the artist.
11. Terri Loewenthal, Psychscape 170 (Rustlers Gulch, CO), (2022). Image courtesy of the artist.
