Terrell is a Brooklyn-based photographer, but born and raised in New Jersey. He first started capturing images in his high school photography club at age 15. From there he attended Harvard University, where he graduated in 2011 with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies; specifically concentrating in photography.

The focus of Terrell’s work can often be described as the texture of the ordinary: the quality of light in a familiar room, the expression on a friend’s face in an unguarded moment, the way a riverbed catches the afternoon sun in the silence of a forest. There is a curiosity in the mundane, a depth and beauty that hides just beneath familiar surfaces.

His series, such as Night, Sunstrokes, and Sky have a strong focus on the interplay of shadow and light, man and nature, solitude and the expanse. After nearly a decade without any regular practice, in November of 2025, Terrell began a 365-day project: one photograph, every day, without exception. It is an act of recommitment, a daily discipline to honing his craft and bubbling forth life’s most visceral, yet important elements.

Ultimately the goal of his images is to evoke the slightly unsettling sense that the world is stranger and more wonderful than we allow ourselves to notice and that looking, really looking, is one of the few ways to find your way back to it.