ONE MONTH UNTIL ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
ONE MONTH UNTIL ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
On August 18, I will begin my time as a 2026 Rocky Mountain National Park Artist-in-Residence.
During the residency, I will bring together landscape photography, tactile art, audio description, and field recording to explore how the park can be experienced through sight, touch, and sound.
The photographs I create will become the foundation for tactile artwork. Texture, luminosity, and shape will be translated into three-dimensional reliefs designed to be explored by touch. The natural sounds surrounding those photographs will help preserve something equally important, a sense of place.
This project has been moving toward the mountains for a long time. Now, with one month to go, the cameras, microphones, hiking gear, and an unreasonable number of charging cables are beginning to gather.
Over the next four weeks, I will share more about the residency, the tactile photography process, the equipment, the preparation, and what I hope to learn while working in the park.
The countdown begins.
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“Ted’s journey into the landscape of the human body is a marvelous celebration of all that is physical, sensual and diverse
” – FSTOPPERS
About the author
Ted Tahquechi is a Broomfield, Colorado based professional landscape and travel photographer, educator, tactile artist, and disabled travel advocate. A blind photographer, Ted explores landscape, place, texture, luminosity, and memory through traditional photography, alternative photographic processes, and accessible art. In 2026, Ted was selected as one of six artists for the Rocky Mountain National Park Artist-in-Residence program. His residency work combines landscape photography, tactile interpretation, environmental sound, and audio description to make the experience of place more accessible to blind and low-vision audiences.
Ted and his wife, Carrie, are the creators of Tactile Photos, a project that transforms photographic texture, luminosity, shape, and form into three-dimensional tactile artwork.
View Ted’s photography at:
https://www.tahquechi.com/
Ted also operates Blind Travels, a travel publication created to empower blind and low-vision travelers with practical information for exploring the world confidently:
https://www.blindtravels.com/
His body-positive Landscapes of the Body project has been exhibited internationally:
https://www.bodyscapes.photography/
Questions or comments:
nedskee@tahquechi.com
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