Fine Art Photography

"Haunting, ethereal, mystical" – all of these words have been used to describe the photographic style of Joyce Tenneson. 

Tenneson's photos command a complex and intense emotional response from the viewer. Her images are a mysterious alchemy of sensuality and spirituality lit in an almost otherworldly glow. Vicki Goldberg, critic and author, wrote: “Tenneson possesses a unique vision which makes her photographs immediately recognizable.” 

Internationally lauded as one of the leading photographers of her generation, Tenneson's photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and her portraits have appeared on covers for magazines such as: Time, Life, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. Joyce is the author of seventeen best selling books including "Transformations,"  "Light Warriors," and  “Wise Women", which sold over half a million copies and was featured in a six-part Today Show series. 

Tenneson is the recipient of many awards and, in a poll conducted by American Photo Magazine, readers voted Tenneson among the ten most influential women in the history of photography. The Lucie Awards named Joyce Tenneson as Fine Art Photographer of the Year in 2005, and in the Fall of 2014, Fotografiska Museum, in Stockholm, Sweden, mounted a large retrospective of Tenneson’s work.  In 2018 she received the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Portraiture. 

In 2021 Tenneson was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, and in 2023, her life and work was featured on PBS in a documentary entitled "Unveiled: Joyce Tenneson and the Heroine's Journey."  Joyce is currently creating her 18th book, featuring bodies of work that she has never shared with the world.  It is tentatively entitled: "Unseen Tenneson."