Trees - Liberty Park

John W. Telford is an outdoor photographer known technically astute images of unpopulated landscapes of the western United States. Although essentially self-taught, Telford earned an MFA from the University of Utah. He was the supervisor of photography at Educational Media Services at his alma mater. He also taught at Westminster College, the Salt Lake Art Center, and was on the faculty of Brigham Young University. In 1988, he and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams collaborated on Coyote’s Canyon, a photo and essay journal of southern Utah. In 2012 Telford’s photographs were displayed in Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art in an exhibit In the Shadows of Timpanogos.

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