Background
Karen Tweedy-Holmes was born on September 21, 1942, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
2016
Karen Tweedy-Holmes Photograph by Karen Pomroy
(Tweedy-Holmes's first book, Thought to Exist in the Wild ...)
Tweedy-Holmes's first book, Thought to Exist in the Wild (2007), severely critical consideration of zoos, with text by the environmental activist Derrick Jensen, won the 2008 Grand Prize of the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Silver Medal of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Animal category.
2001
(Her second book, Horse Sanctuary, documenting and celebra...)
Her second book, Horse Sanctuary, documenting and celebrating the work of 13 equine sanctuaries throughout the United States, with text by Allison Milionis and foreword by Temple Grandin was published in March 2013 by Universe, a division of Rizzoli.
https://www.amazon.com/Horse-Sanctuary-Allison-Milionis/dp/0789324784/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Karen+Tweedy-Holmes&qid=1606981406&sr=8-3
2013
Karen Tweedy-Holmes was born on September 21, 1942, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Karen Tweedy-Holmes received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Barnard College, New York City, in 1964.
A freelance photographer and editor since 1975, Karen Tweedy-Holmes has been coordinating editor for Avon Products, Inc., in New York City since 1978. She served as a humanities editor for Columbia University Press (1971-1975) and was staff photographer and copy and production editor for Conover- Mast, Inc., in New York City (1967-1969). The photographer won Best in Show, first and third prizes in the New York Morgan Horse Society Photo Contest in 1979.
Shooting black-and-white and printing without manipulation Tweedy-Holmes makes her subjects the human face and body, animals, architecture, New York City, Paris, and still lifes. She uses color for macro photography of insects.
For more than thirty years Karen Tweedy-Holmes has been committed to a self-assigned project-to produce a powerful and extensive group of black-and-white images of captive animals that would compel the viewer to question the concept of wild animals' incarceration as entertainment.
Thought to Exist in the Wild
(Tweedy-Holmes's first book, Thought to Exist in the Wild ...)
2001(Her second book, Horse Sanctuary, documenting and celebra...)
2013Tweedy-Holmes has belonged to Professional Women Photographers since 1977.