Ted Rueff is an avid fine arts photographer. He is Director Emeritus of Counseling Services at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and is enthusiastic about the possibilities of the arts as a resource for healing and a medium for personal and social transformation.

“My photography is informed by my professional life as a counseling psychologist. Revelation of self and relationship to the world are themes to which I'm often drawn.

I’m influenced too by my lifelong love of music. Expressions of rhythm and melody inherent in subjects are a ready source of inspiration.

On better days my photographic process provides me a welcome opportunity for mindful engagement - to lose myself in the immediacy of the moment and embrace the subject with a deep sense of intimacy.

Much of my photography represents impressions of the natural world, though recent work has also focused on personal and interpersonal narratives told in images of people in everyday life.”

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"If you are willing to enter [their] private world and see the way life appears to [them], without any attempt to make evaluative judgments, you run the risk of being changed yourself."

- Psychotherapist Carl Rogers