Wendy Richmond is a photographer and visual documentarian whose work explores memory, transformation, historic places, and the stories hidden within everyday landscapes.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, while living in Brooklyn, New York, Wendy documented neighborhoods, architecture, cemeteries, historic theaters, and urban life during a period of significant change. Many of these images were originally created while she was involved with the Brooklyn Lyceum, owned by her brother, Eric, a historic public bathhouse transformed into an arts and cultural center. Selected photographs from that period were published as postcards and sold through the Brooklyn Museum gift shop.

For decades, much of this work remained stored as slides and negatives.

In 2026, while documenting the demolition and redevelopment of the former Black Prince Distillery site across from her home in Clifton, New Jersey, Wendy rediscovered her photographic archive. What began as an effort to preserve old photographs became a renewed commitment to photography and visual storytelling.

Today, her work includes several ongoing collections, including:

• Brooklyn Archive – photographs of Brooklyn in the late 1980s and early 1990s

• The Bushwick Theater – a documentary and historical project exploring the life, abandonment, and transformation of a once-grand vaudeville and movie theater

• Green-Wood Cemetery – studies of history, architecture, sculpture, and remembrance

• Paterson Cemetery – contemporary photographs exploring memory, permanence, and place

• Site Transformations – documentation of buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes as they change over time

• Hidden in Plain Sight – images that reveal overlooked beauty and stories within ordinary surroundings

Through her work, Wendy seeks to preserve moments that might otherwise be forgotten and to encourage viewers to look more closely at the places around them.

Based in Clifton, New Jersey.