The Ted Spagna Project

The Ted Spagna Project is a creative endeavor whose mission is to awaken and give new life to work that has laid dormant for over 20 years. We have a large selection of sleep art available for licensing and digitally printed reproductions for purchase. Ted Spagna was the first person to photograph sleep extensively. The significance of this work lies in both its aesthetic and scientific implications. Researchers never had this kind of visual information before. His photographs were evidence of a ninety-minute human sleep cycle, and physiological manifestations of dream activity. 20 years after Spagna's passing, family friends Ron Eldridge and Delia Bonfilio (Spagna’s nephew and god-daughter), set out to acknowledge his important contributions to art and science by shining a light on his pioneering work in sleep photography. They were poised to revive his work and created The Ted Spagna Project. Its mission is two-fold: to awaken Spagna’s sleep photography from its 20+ years of dormancy and to re-imagine it in the present day.