| Ted has deep roots in both Vancouver
and visual media. Born and educated here, Ted purchased the former
Lew Weekes Photo in 1984. Ted had the good fortune to serve an apprenticeship
with Lew, a consummate large format black & white photographer.
Grounded in classical techniques and equipment
but with an eye to the future, Ted began to reinvent the business.
New equipment, new films, new processes, new technologies... As
his tools and techniques changed so did the variety and volume
of his clientelle.
Ted's reputation as a superb craftsman inevitably
caught the attention of others for whom fidelity in visual media
is critical: artists, artisans, designers, illustrators —
the entire spectrum of creative professionals. It's a natural
alliance — Ted's unrelenting commitment to accurate photographic
depiction, and his clients' need to see their works represented
in their true light.
It's been two years since Ted changed Weekes to
image this. But the really important
change started almost 20 years ago when the master of one generation
passed his art to the next. And therefore one thing hasn't changed
at all: first in Lew's hands and now in Ted's, the line between
the art of photography and photography of art cannot be drawn. |