Born in Washington, DC, Deborah Terry’s career as a professional photographer has spanned over 30 years.  In the early 1990s, she moved to New York City to pursue that career, focusing her creative energy in fashion photography.  She made the leap to the music industry, photographing Hip Hop and R&B artists for various record labels in NYC.

Her photographic career took a completely different turn when she participated in missions to Liberia and Darfur for Refugees International a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC.  Exposing herself to a self-fulfilling journey she used her artistic vision to capture the desperate plight of refugees and impoverished people revealing the resilient and enduring inner-beauty that lies beneath the hardship of their daily life.

Deborah is Vice President and Creative Director for International Lifeline Fund (Lifeline) – a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization. Lifeline seeks to “help people help themselves”. Through innovative and cost-effective interventions — clean water and fuel-efficient stove programs that have profoundly improved quality of life for over 500,000 displaced and impoverished people in Africa and Haiti.  

In 2017 Deborah channeled her picturesque vision into the television industry. She is the Founder and Creative Director as well as the producer, videographer writer, editor, and photographer of each episode of Beauty Inside Out (BIO).

EXHIBITIONS

NEW YORK: Solo exhibit:  Migrations – Institute of African American Affairs at NYU – Group show:  UnderExposed – The Lincoln Center – Group show:  Snap Shots – Chashama Gallery

MIAMI: Group show:  Art Basel

WASHINGTON, DC: Solo: The Coca Cola Foundation – U.S. Institute of Peace – Solo exhibit: Water Is Everything Event – National Press Club – Group show: East of the River 2016 – The Honfleur Gallery – Three solos:  Water For Life – L2 Lounge (with DCFoto Week) – Solo exhibit:  Migrations – The Gallery at Vivid Solutions – Group show: Stories – The Honfleur Gallery (with NBC’s Ann Curry) – Solo exhibit:  Life Essentials Art Show – Solo exhibit:  Lifeline to Haiti – The Longview Gallery – Group show: East of the River – The Honfleur Gallery – Solo exhibit:  Refugees International Annual GALA – Group show: Cultural Tourism DCFoto Week – Whole Foods – Solo exhibit: Display – Law Offices of Greenberg & Traurig

DENVER:  Group show:  The Nathan Yip Foundation Annual GALA

FILM:  HBO – Sand and Sorrow; Documentary in Darfur