Joyce Tenneson

The image on the cover is from Light Warriors (Bulfinch Press). For that book, Joyce Tenneson photographed women from twenty-one countries in an attempt to uncover “the archetypes of our being.” When Dasha, one of the models, told Tenneson about a recurring dream in which a bird flew out of her heart, Tenneson realized she’d had the same dream many times herself. She tried to recreate the dream-image by “photographing two birds flapping their wings around her heart, but it looked clichéd. Finally, as I was giving up on the idea, the birds settled on her shoulders to relax, and I realized that this was the image I wanted. I took one shot before the birds flew away.”