© Susan May Tell. All Rights Reserved.
Image submitted to SxSE for consideration by Elizabeth Avedon for the exhibition Call the Dogs, March 2026. Written authorization by photographer required for additional use.
COMBINED BIO & STATEMENT:
A visual poet: Susan May Tell is a quiet, lyrical, intuitive, photographer drawn to the overlooked and fragile details contained in the ordinary. Led by her camera lens, she only stops to press the shutter when feeling equally and simultaneously visually and emotionally captivated. This photo was part of the series that awarded her PhotoLucida’s Creative Mass TOP50 2025. This particular photo was also selected and printed by the Duncan Miller Gallery (Los Angeles) as its Creative Mass exhibition.
Her favorite photographer, who made her dinner on her birthday, is André Kertész who selected her portrait of him as the frontispiece of his final book. He said: “You have feeling. You have the composition.”
Susan’s work is in the Smithsonian Museum’s famed Samuel Wagstaff Collection; Columbia University acquired Tell’s Catalog of Works and Oral History. She recently completed another Fellowship to MacDowell.
