About Me and My Work
About Me
Photography Artist and Poet
My name is Tanya Bartlett, and I am a photographer and writer from the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.
Photography and writing are primarily my chosen tools for processing the world. The work is sometimes arduous, sometimes celebratory, and almost always cathartic.
A little wisdom for anyone interested in photography or writing as a profession: Like anything, they are practices, and the practice (not some competition you have or think you have with anyone else) is what makes you who you are. Make the most of it. Make the most of you. Create for yourself, first.
About My Photography
Abstract, Flora, and Landscape Photographic Prints
I’m obsessed with ethereal and surreal subjects, and I love the play between light and dark or light and shadows, lines, and textures. I love making art, and I love experimenting with layers and effects.
When I created my website in December 2020 with a primary focus in macro flora photography, I had no idea that I would also grow to love working with abstracts and landscapes, but I now have three pages of collections dedicated to abstract, flora, and landscape pieces.
Some pieces are calm and serene and some are lively and vibrant, and if you’re looking for something that’s not in one of my collections, feel free to reach out to me. I am available for commission for custom pieces.
So take a look around and if you have questions about pricing or ordering, feel free to email me at info@tanyabartlett.com.
About My Writing
Video, Visual, and Written Poetry
Though I enjoy many different forms and genres of writing, I especially enjoy poetry, and when I’m writing I generally explore subjects in mythology, nature, philosophy, and politics.
I share some of my poetry here on my writing page, and I also created a YouTube channel for some of my poetry videos. You can also find my work in various collections and anthologies as listed in the Publications and Exhibitions section below.
Publications and Exhibitions
Places Where My Work Has Appeared
- Felt Photographic’s Dreaming Exhibition, July 1-31, 2025: “At the End of Things”
- All Else Pales 2 Print Anthology (2025), A Song, Emerging / Poems About Our Earth: “The Burning Fields”
- Creation to Requiem: Explorations of Life, an art exhibition during May Festival at Music Hall in Cincinnati, OH, May 17-25, 2024: “Reflection”
- Felt Photographic’s Unity Exhibition, November 1-30, 2023: “Reflection”
- The Photography Show at NEC in Birmingham UK, March 16-19, 2024: “Reflection”
- AVE22 MetaGallery’s Window to the Soul Exhibition, October 28-November 4, 2023: “The Eye”
- SOS Art Cincinnati’s For a Better World
- 2026 Edition: “We Mark the Space Between Us”
- 2025 Edition: “All of Society’s Ills” and “Enough Is Enough”
- 2024 Edition: “For Zazu Nova” and “Love, Hope, and Peace”
- 2022 Edition: “A Flag or a Cloak”
- 2021 Edition: “Ode to Feminists”
- 2020 Edition: “Hell’s Hollow,” “Don’t Forget to Smile,” and “The Lady’s Hopeful Sonnet”
- Anthropocene: Poetry about Environment, 2022: “All That We Could Have Been,” “Spring Is a Time,” and “Apollo’s Flower”
- Starr Library Poetry Reading and Exhibition, April 2021: “Daffodil”
- Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Journal Pegasus, Summer/Autumn 2018 Issue: “The Stone Steps of Idyll Hill”
- The Voices Project, December 2014: “Pendulum”