Art Feature: The Guardian
September 3, 2024: Strange reflections: how the streets bring us together – in pictures
During lockdown, Teri Vershel revisited her vibrant street images and realised pairing them with others revealed fascinating connections between strangers.
Photobook Review: Frames Magazine
December 10, 2024: Just Like the Other – Review of “Relative Strangers” by Teri Vershel
It would be difficult to say anything good came out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The disruption, the loss of life, and the global chaos deeply affected everybody. Yet, it would also be difficult to say the pandemic didn’t reorient a lot of art of every sort. The isolations forced rethinkings. Close one door, the old saying goes, and a new window opens.
Feature: Phoblographer
September 5, 2024: How Street Photography Saved Teri Vershel
“I love the work of Mr. Haas, and in this particular book, the pairings of photographs on adjacent pages are magical,” says photographer Teri Vershel to the Phoblographer in an interview. Teri’s new book, Relative Strangers, is inspired by Ernst Haas — and dedicated to her children.
Photobook Review: Musée Magazine
May 16, 2024: Book Review - Relative Strangers by Teri Vershel
Teri Vershel’s artistic masterpiece, ‘Relative Strangers,’ stirs the soul. These curated and honed images capture the necessities of humanity and what it means to be human and coexist with individuals and nature.
Feature: The Eye of Photography
August 19, 2024
Published by Daylight Books, Relative Strangers by street photographer Teri Vershel highlights the unseen connections in the everyday. Many of her photographs in the book are presented as diptychs and weave narratives between images that tell stories of a shared humanity.
Vershel explains: “I’ve been a people watcher all my life and I am always striking up conversations with strangers I meet every day on the street, so continuing in this vein with a camera feels natural. While the people in the photographs are strangers, I find by comparison that they are often related.”