Perhaps because of his father's inheritance, Richardson finally started photography at 1989. The first camera in his life was a simple small camera left by his mother. From then on, he began to shoot things around him freely and freely. His research object is his rock band members in Ojai, California. They formed a band called SSA (Signal Street Alcoholics). Richardson still has the word SSA tattooed on his chest. At that time, Richardson's shooting techniques were mainly natural, improvisational and skilled. A few years later, his biological father, Bob Richardson, tried to persuade him to go north to teach Terry something other than technology: the art of taking pictures. But in the end, Terry betrayed his father's traditional way, and he needed another way to express himself.
From then on, Richardson began his career as a photographer. He wandered around the East Village and Tompkins Square Park, filming children, homeless people and drug addicts.
Richardson's style gradually took shape, bold, provocative, unrestrained, occasionally erotic, self-satire revealed attractive desires and challenged the scale. His straightforward expression style is criticized and supported by some people, which may be hard for some people to accept, but it has an nameless appeal to his supporters.
Compared with those avant-garde artists, Terry is lucky. He lives in an extremely chaotic era, and his vulgar and real photos have become the darling of the whole era. So various opportunities followed, and his name began to appear in various fashion magazines. New york people who don't understand him once, and customers who refuse to tell him that "your work is too unprofessional, fashion magazines can't accept snapshots, and your photos look like scenes cut from pornographic movies in the 1970s" all want to hire him. His photos are flying like snowflakes in American, Japanese, French and English fashion magazines and brand projects. His works began to appear in avant-garde magazines such as I-D, VOGUE and THE FACE all the year round, and at the same time became the photographic target pursued by world-renowned brands such as GUCCI, SISLEY and ARMANI.
Terry revealed his dream of making a film to new york magazine earlier and filmed his own theme. In fact, some of his dreams have come true, and he made music videos for bands such as "The Death Scream" and "Jon Spencer Bruce Reveals".
The so-called impermanence, one day, we saw Terry appear, probably on the screen of the cinema: he was naked, revealing the tattoos of "SSA" and "T-bone" on his chest and abdomen, and showed off his fashionable long sideburns and moustache in the play. He is very tall, but his walking is a bit lame. He likes to wear faded jeans and canvas shoes, and often wears a pair of huge light-colored pilot shoes.