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Brittany R. Bradley is an award-winning alternative process photographer and an established museum and gallery professional. Her work has been featured in group exhibits at the Center for Photographic Art, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Photos De Femmes, the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, and the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival.
As a museum collections registrar, Bradley has worked with the collections of renowned photographers including Andrew J. Russell, Dorothea Lange, Anne Brigman, and Joanne Leonard.
She studied photography with Nigel Poor and Douglas Dertinger at Sacramento State University, and she holds a B.A. in Photography. She studied the wet-plate collodion process with France Scully Osterman in Rochester, New York, and with David Emitt Adams and Claire A. Warden in Benabbio, Italy. Bradley uses a mobile darkroom to bring collodion photography to the public via demonstrations and artist talks.
"Most of collodion, both modern and historical, is a perpetual representation of the white male gaze. A perspective that has not truly shifted since the medium's conception over 150 years ago. I am interested in how a medium that has continually been used to exploit marginalized voices, could instead be adapted to amplify and empower. I’m looking to make the images that were missing from the version of history I was presented in school." In ethereal portraits of everyday California, Bradley alludes to darker and more serious themes that saturate the California landscape and it’s history.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Union Democrat April 11th 2024
Canvas Rebel 2024 “Meet Brittany Bradley”
Content Magazine 16.2 Sight and Sound
Roller Rag Magazine Winter 2023 Volume 12
History San Jose, History of Tintypes Lecture and Demo, San Jose, CA 2023
Palo Alto City Library, History of Wet Plate Collodion Process, Palo Alto, CA 2023
Cal Poly Humboldt, Lecture to Alternative Process, Arcata, CA 2022
Redwood Coast Montessori High School Lecture, Eureka, CA 2022
I Am, Exhibition Catalog Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2021
East Bay Artists 2020, book published by ArtPush (artpush.org), 2020
San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards, bokehbokeh.photo, 2020
“In Conversation: Artists Consider Andrew J. Russell’s Photography,” Artist Talk, Oakland Museum of California, 2020
Salann Magazine 1st Edition, Featured Artist, salannmagazine.com, 2019
Albumen Demonstration, Oakland Museum of California, 2019
International Juried Exhibition Catalog, Center for Photographic Arts, photography.org, 2018
Collodion Demonstration, Oakland Museum of California, 2018
Physical Access to Photographic Collections in the Era of Digitization, Thesis, 2016
RESIDENCIES
Cubberley Artist Studio Program (CASP), Palo Alto CA 2023
Creekside Arts Fall Artist in Residence Program, Eureka CA 2022
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
My Father’s Daughter, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, California (pgartcenter.org), 2021
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
I Am, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2021
SeeingWOMEN, Photos De Femmes, Crozon-sur-Vauvre, France, (photosdefemmes.org), 2020
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle, WA, 2019
The Continuous Thread: Celebrating Our Interwoven Histories, Identities, and Contributions, San Francisco Arts Commission Initiative, SFAC Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA, October–December, 2019
Alameda on Camera, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA, 2019
Collective Voices, 2nd Annual Exhibition, Modella Gallery, Stillwater OK, 2019
The Naked Print, National Juried Exhibition Group Exhibition, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, 2019, Stephen Fisher, juror 2018
International Juried Exhibition Group Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, 2018, Eve Schillo, juror
Dreams, An All Women Photo Show, 1090 Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2018
COLLECTIONS
Women’s March Collection, Sutro Library Branch of the California State Library, San Francisco CA 2021
AWARDS, HONORS,
Silver Award, San Francisco International Photography Awards 2020
First Prize, Sisterhood Category, SeeingWOMEN, Photos De Femmes, 2020 Honorable Mention,
Equality Category, SeeingWOMEN, Photos De Femmes, 2020
Juror’s Choice Award, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, 2019
Honorable Mention, OneShot: Street Photography, International Photography Awards, 2019
Historic Alameda Award, Alameda on Camera, 2019
EDUCATION
M.B.A. John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, CA M.A. Museum Studies,
John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, CA
B.A. Photography, Sacramento State University California, Sacramento, CA
B.A. Journalism, Sacramento State University California, Sacramento, CA
FURTHER STUDY
Light Into Matter, Collodion Workshop with Claire A. Warden and David Emitt Adams, Alchemy Studio, Benabbio, Italy, 2018
Private Collodion Workshop, France Scully Osterman, Rochester, NY, 2015
COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA