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Dance
Fine Art
Chicago, IL
TylerMcAuley
Dance, movement, and people as they are.
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Dance, movement, and people as they are.
01 — Portfolio
Twelve frames from the current portfolio — the same set carried into gallery submissions this year. Tap any frame to see it full-screen.
02 — The Galleries
Four galleries — one for each kind of work on offer. Switch between them; every frame opens full-screen, and every shoot below is bookable.
01–05 · Dance Sessions
Solos, headshots, and company work — in the studio or out in the city, built around how you actually move. The five frames here are pulled from the selected dance portfolio.
01–08 · Fine Art Portraits
The dark-room work: hard light, real locations, and the person left in the picture. These are the frames that hang — the sittings are bookable, and the prints live in the store.
01–05 · Weddings
Full days, shot quiet — the same eye as the dance work: candids that read like stills from a film, portraits in whatever hard light the day hands us. The five frames here are from one rooftop wedding on the water — one couple, one day, shot the way it felt. Chicago-based, travels.
Receipts · Vol. 1 · 2026
Receipts is the first book — twenty-one photographs, each facing its own poem, printed the way the pairs were made. This is the object itself: cover, spread, and a page from inside.
The Cover
Hardcover, 8×10, 48 pages. Alley Jump on black, the way the printed book arrives.
Inside
Every spread is built the same way: the photograph on the left page, its poem facing it on the right.
From the Pages
One of the twenty-one pairs — shot in a working laundromat, the poem written the same week.
03 — Sideways
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04 — The Book
Twenty-one photographs, each facing its own poem. Photo on the left page, poem on the right — the way the book is printed.
October Second — left page
From Receipts · right page
every october around six the sun sits right on top of ashland like it's waiting for the bus. i drive straight into it, visor down, hand up, steering with my knee a little. i know. i know. it does this thing for like ten minutes where everything goes gold. the dumpsters. the bus stop. some guy's silver honda. all of it gold, like the street got dressed up and nobody told me.
The cover, the spreads, and the rest of the book live in the Photobooks gallery — along with the dance, fine-art, and wedding galleries.
05 — About
Tyler McAuley came to photography from the stage — acting training, years of performing, and a working life around dancers. It shows in the pictures.
Based in Chicago, he travels the country as an emcee for Edge National Talent, and shoots dancers, weddings, and fine-art portraits in between. Every photograph on this page is paired, somewhere, with a poem — the two have never been separate projects.
06 — Sessions
Five ways in — three you book, one you read, one you take home. The shoot rows open their galleries above.
Studio or on-location shoots built around your movement — solos, headshots, company work.
→ No. 2The dark-room work: hard light, real locations, pictures that hang on walls afterwards.
→ No. 3Full-day coverage with the same eye — candids that read like stills from a film.
→ No. 4What each session includes and how booking runs — headshots, minis, full sessions, full days.
→ No. 5Framed and unframed prints of the work on this page, sold through the store.
↗07 — Rates & Prints
How a booking runs and what sessions include — plus where the framed work lives, if you'd rather take a piece home.
Every booking starts as a conversation, not a checkout. Rates are quoted per session once we know the shape of it — reach out with what you're making and you'll get a straight answer back.
The Store — Print Sales
Prints of the work on this page — the dance frames, the fine-art pieces, the alley — are sold through the Shopify store: framed and unframed, shipped to your door.
Shop Prints ↗jm-photography23.myshopify.com
08 — Contact
Booking for late 2026 and into 2027 — dance, portraits, and weddings, in Chicago or wherever the work is. DM me or email me at jmphotography2323@gmail.com.
