Photographic Unreality
Illustrative Photography for Movies and Books
Wherever, as a company making movies and publishing books, creates images for movie posters, book covers, interior illustrations and promotions for both. Movies and Books require a unique style of photography that is a blend of photography and art — much like a painting. The models are not posed for fashion or portraits… They represent a story or character in the movie or book. The photos are real, the final image has an unreality that comes from being an illustration of a thing that doesn’t exist in real life. Welcome to the unreality of Wherever Images.
2023-2024 Book Covers
The Photographer: Terry Ulick
56 Years
That’s how long I’ve been taking pictures. Along the way I’ve taken pictures for advertising, magazines, books, and models. If there is one theme running through my photographic work, it’s taking pictures of women. When I work with a new model, I explain I don’t take pictures of bodies, I take pictures of the person. What is inside. I love bringing the beauty within a model to an image that is as unique as they are. They have all said I’ve taken their best shots.
56 years is a long time. I started a rock and roll newspaper/magazine when I was 13 in the 60s, and wrote the articles and took the pictures because I worked for nothing! As I moved the paper to color and had incredible subjects (rock stars) my photos were never of them onstage. They were portraits taken in hotel rooms or backstage. I was in Chicago at the time and my photo work was getting well known. A certain magazine there wanted to reach a younger male audience and the publisher said it would be good to have covers like that kid with his rock magazine. That was Hugh Hefner and at 18 I was hired to do covers for Playboy. I put the clothes back on the cover models and that was the faith he had in me. Sales went up, and the readers were younger than ever.
Rock starts and Playmate photos were my start, and there is still that slick, glamour style in all I do. I’m a studio photographer who loves finding the mystery within each model I work with. It’s where each photo is the first one I’ve ever taken. They are each exciting to take and share.