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Todd Atteberry
79 Spring Road, Huntington Village, New York
631-935-4726
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For years I hesitated to call myself a photographer (a point seconded by many photographers I know), and sometimes the term artist seems a bit pretentious. I'm from a small town in the midwest, and we don't do pretentiousness very well out there. My influences as a painter were old school (I left art school just when my art history class was finishing with the impressionists. I don't consider myself damaged for having missed most of the twentieth century). Eventually the capabilities I found in my work as a graphic designer could be applied to my past-time as a photographer and from there, something like a style was born.

Combining a love for history and literature with a natural curiosity to see where these events took place, my work attempts to strip away the layers of time which hide the mood and feeling of these locations. The route Ichabod Crane would have taken through Sleepy Hollow is now lined with power lines as thick as your arm - to get a shot of 18th and 19th century structures on Long Island often means getting there at sunrise before the cars are parked along the road in front of it. Our history is still there, it just takes a bit of work to see it now.

My work has appeared in the New York Times, Indianapolis Post, CNN, Broadway World and BBC websites, multiple selections of the Karma Photo of the Day, and travel sites for Savannah, Georgia; Donegal, Ireland and Bath, England. I also contributed to a forthcoming book on the factual basis for the legends of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson River Valley by Jonathan Kruk, and will be contributing the artwork for Haunted Long Island II, both to be published in 2010.

I've done illustration in my day job for several ad agencies and newspapers, as well as various national magazines. I've also worked freelance as an illustrator and graphic designer for major corporations, agencies and institutions, including Ogilvy and Mathers, Lintas/New York, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, the City of Evansville, Vincennes University and others, as well as commissioned portraits.

I recently completed a one-person exhibition of photographs at the HDK Digital Gallery of Art in Detmold, Germany. According to Hartwig Kopp Delaney, curator of the museum's catalogue of the show, "A noble and mature spirit creates compositions here of high artistic skill and sensibility. Wisdom and humor are mirrored within. Peace and harmony. Simultaneously and without contradiction, they are melancholic, thoughtful, and lure the viewers in to the depths of their own souls, but not into the depths of horror and dread, but rather in the childlike spheres of curiosity and dreaming." Or as my mother says, "ooh pretty!"

In addition, my artwork has been exhibited at the Mitchell Museum of Art in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, The Jungle in Evansville, Indiana, as well as numerous local exhibitions throughout southern Illinois.

I'm available for assignments on North America and Europe - with a specialization in the eastern seaboard, the midwest as well as England and Ireland. My work is also available for commercial use by contacting me directly.