ABIGAYLE TARSCHES is a fine arts photographer with a diverse background and unique style. She has worked professionally in all aspects of photography including commercial print, fashion, advertising, music and film stills/publicity, art books and book covers, as well as portraiture. Exhibitions of her original artwork have included shows in many areas of the United States. Tarsches holds a BFA in Art from San Francisco State University and she attended graduate courses at the Otis Parsons Art Institute, Los Angeles in photography.

Her work has been published in such publications as Art News, American Film, Rolling Stone, Women's Wear Daily, the New York Times, Glamour, People, Premiere, Interview, as well as by Columbia Records, Polygram Records, Atlantic Records, Random House Books, Farrar, Girioux, & Strauss Books, among others. Selected exhibitions include Cheeries, San Francisco, Chaz Restaurant, SF, Spring Street gallery, NY, Robin Rice Gallery, NY, Multi Media Arts Gallery, NY, Puchong Gallery, NY, Soho Photo Gallery NY, Salon DesArtists NY, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Otis Parsons Art Institute, L.A.

"My Own Private Idaho", "Even Cowgirls get the Blues", "Household Saints", "Ethan Frome", "Rough Magic", "The Rapture", "Pet Cemetary", "Crusoe" and "Anna" are selected film titles for which Ms. Tarsches did both unit and special stills. Her arresting photographic images garnered her credit for the poster art for these cutting-edge, independent films. Many of her posters have subsequently become well known images.

Tarsches became interested in portrait photography in l985 and has continued to do this work both for hire and for her own artistic inquiry throughout this new millennium. However, Tarsches' timeless black and white images are not computer generated, but are all printed by hand, the old-fashioned, classical way in the the darkroom. Abigayle Tarsches creates images that stay with you; that haunt and move you as if you've dreamed them or remembered them. They are at once original and new, yet familiar as if drawn from deep within our collective unconscious. She captures the moment between the moments, always evoking something at once mythic and beautiful.