Jo Terrien works in experimental analog photography, using early photographic processes and hands-on experimentation to explore what a photograph can be. Using alternative techniques first developed by photography’s earliest practitioners, she creates images that challenge conventional expectations of the medium. Her practice is process-driven—guided less by the pursuit of a fixed outcome than by an exploratory making she describes as “her playground,” a mode that opens space for intuition, liberation, and embodied thinking.
 

Drawing inspiration from her environment—both geographic and communal—her work becomes a dialogue with place, chemical unpredictability, and the histories embedded in photographic materials. She earned a BA in Studio Art from Pitzer College in California.