Stephen Brookbank
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Stephen Brookbank used the photographic process in a documentary fashion that placed him firmly in the role of visual anthropologist. Stephen shot 4×5 negatives and his prints are created with a Chromira on chromogenic paper.
Brookbank's work focuses on contemporary social and economic uncertainty, adopting banal images of North America’s urban landscape as raw material for his visual record. The exchange between life and work was a primary concern for Brookbank, eliciting him to extend the explorations of early American documentary photographers into what the present world will look like as a past-era. Creating a cinematic atmosphere within his images, the artist found allegories among simple realities of life such as distinction between light emitted from an overcast sky on a town, the glow of a streetlamp in a residential area, and the illumination afforded a living room by a simple light bulb.
Brookbank's most recently completed series, Water.Rock.Time., embodied an exploration of the North Atlantic Ocean - the coastal environment where he grew up. The series was part of a collaborative project between Brookbank and novelist/short story writer, Ian Colford.
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Stephen Brookbank used the photographic process in a documentary fashion that placed him firmly in the role of visual anthropologist. Stephen shot 4×5 negatives and his prints are created with a Chromira on chromogenic paper.
Brookbank's work focuses on contemporary social and economic uncertainty, adopting banal images of North America’s urban landscape as raw material for his visual record. The exchange between life and work was a primary concern for Brookbank, eliciting him to extend the explorations of early American documentary photographers into what the present world will look like as a past-era. Creating a cinematic atmosphere within his images, the artist found allegories among simple realities of life such as distinction between light emitted from an overcast sky on a town, the glow of a streetlamp in a residential area, and the illumination afforded a living room by a simple light bulb.
Brookbank's most recently completed series, Water.Rock.Time., embodied an exploration of the North Atlantic Ocean - the coastal environment where he grew up. The series was part of a collaborative project between Brookbank and novelist/short story writer, Ian Colford.
