Welcome!
I’m Tia, a Utah based photographer with a deep passion for capturing life's special moments. My focus is on people— those fleeting, genuine moments that tell our stories.
Explore my portfolio and join me in celebrating, one frame at a time.
Headshots
“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.” — Meg Medina
Heidi
Jess
Jess
Seniors
"Great things are just ahead, within your reach."
Emma
Ashton
Mariah
Couples & Weddings
"I would find you in any lifetime"
The Taylor's
The Ritchie's
The Hermansen's
Families
'All because two people fell in love."
The Sumi's
The Baker's
Kids
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne, “Winnie the Pooh”
Baby Cook
Baby Taylor
Fine Art Photography
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
Destruction
Experimental Photography
Fire, Spray paint, and Bleach
Vines
Large Format Film
Shown in the UT - Art Show Rio Gallery Salt Lake
Memories Left Behind
BFA Seminar - Artist Statement
As my daily life has grown more complex, I have taken a step back to simplify my art. I have taken a series of photographs around the idea of beauty and stillness in the ordinary through diptychs, singling out the simplicity and stillness in my otherwise noisy and fast-paced life.
I am interested in the idea of taking photographs of tangible objects which are closely tied to lasting memories. The photographs started as a way to document or preserve the memories linked to them, and evolved into a way of letting go. We all get stuck in the rut of living day to day that we forget to take a step back reflect, ponder, and rejuvenate. Taking these photographs helped me let go of the stress of everyday life to a moment when thing were simpler.
Breaking up the images as diptychs emulates slices of memory which hold the viewer a little longer. What you see at first changes with the next moment, all parts of the spilt image come together to complete the larger image. The images trigger memories or feelings as the audience impose their own life experience into the photographs.
Pause and reflect on ordinary, yet beautiful surroundings of your daily life, the tangible reminders of memories left behind.
Fragments
BFA Thesis - Thesis
This is a series of photographs based on the listlessness of cabin fever. Cabin fever, when the place you should feel warm and secure turns into a dull lifeless prison. When you feel trapped in the place you call home.
Before this last year I had never experienced cabin fever and the sense of depression that comes with it. My days turned dull and fragmented. I wandered in and out of the same few rooms, lingering on objects that before I had passed daily without a second thought. I abandoned projects minutes after starting them, the ambition lost. I was withdrawn, silent, spending most of my time alone, lost in my own tangled thoughts.
The elements of the work show the lethargy and lack of desire that decreases motivation. Insomnia. The feeling of coldness in color and mood that seeps slowly into daily senses, and the isolation that can lead to loneliness and depression.
These photographs not only document the oppressive loneliness I felt, but also became a way to help slowly draw myself out.
Waking moments of loneliness,
Wondering from room to room,
Unable to feel fully alive.
Lost in tangled thoughts,
The cold oppressive feelings linger.
Encircling the unspoken narrative of life,
Capturing fragments of each moment,
Reflecting what is only broken up by uneasy sleep.
Struggling to break free.
Trapped in the place you call home.
-Tia Taylor
