Terry Wendt started observing urban environments early in life. Terry’s dad had
lost his central vision from an illness, and, as a 4-year-old, Terry became his
“eyes” while riding the bus around Milwaukee, identifying places and reading
signs to know where to get on and off – and selecting his dad’s favorite songs to play on a restaurant’s jukebox.

Through his curiosity with the visual world, Terry learned to read at age 3 – first
from cereal boxes at breakfast. He enjoyed making drawings of places that his
family visited. A local newspaper labeled Terry as a “prekindergarten architect”, leading to a professional certification as an adult architect 20 years later.

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, Terry first had a Brownie camera and then a manual Nikon 35mm SLR to capture scenes quicker than he could draw them. He photographed friends and others doing ordinary things at school, along with places that expressed variations of compositional quality.

As Terry’s career evolved into urban design, his photography has evolved into two subjects: the geometrics of urban places and the people interacting within them. Terry found fascination in scenes containing windows, incorporating their layered transparency and reflectivity.

Through five decades of local, national, and European travels, Terry is seeking, finding, and capturing both candid and compositional imagery. His photo gallery of varied themes can be viewed on this website – TerryWendtCapturing.com