The Language of Photography

They are called snaps, grab shots, captures, images, photographs, pictures and pix. Most of us don’t quibble about the words, we just know we love them. Everybody in the world  takes pictures these days. Its a good thing that the chemical processing of film has...
Doc Amsden’s Christmas Cards

Doc Amsden’s Christmas Cards

My father began his tradition of producing a personalized Christmas card for the family in the mid-Forties. A tradition that he continued until the early Seventies. A Doctor of Osteopathy, he was as well an amateur photographer who took his hobby quite seriously. He...

The Northumberland Project: Part Two

I am concentrating on presenting my digital work from approximately 2003 to the present. Pre ’03 my work back to the early Nineties is film-based, mostly transparencies and some negatives. The challenge of copying my slide and negative archives to exhibit is...

I Taught Myself Photography from Old Photo Zines

In the beginning, Ted Amsden Photography was more wishful thinking than a business. Although raised by a profoundly talented amateur photographer, my father bequeathed only the aesthetics of his photography and the joy of capturing a good image. As a consequence I...

I Worked For Two of the Smallest Dailies in The Free World

Most people in Northumberland County, located on the north shore of Lake Ontario, east of Toronto, know me as a photojournalist from the days I worked at the Cobourg Daily Star and the Port Hope Evening Guide — two of the smallest dailies in the free world. And later...