Todd Balcom was born in 1969 in South Glens Falls, New York. He earned a BSBA from Bryant University in 1991 and studied photography at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies from 1993 to 1995. He is based in Vermont, shooting with Leica rangefinder cameras.
His projects include documentary studies of college campus student life and community gatherings and celebrations, along with an ongoing project collecting and reprinting vintage family photographs to examine how memory and photography shape each other. His photographs have appeared in Shelby American and Leica Fotografie International, and he has twice been named a Finalist in the Lucie Foundation's international Street Photography competition. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Franklin Pierce University, the Vermont Center for Photography, and the University of Vermont.
Balcom photographs public celebrations, festivals, parades, and community rituals, working in an unposed, unstaged documentary style.
