ARTIST STATEMENT
Brittanie Bondie is a process-based analogue photographer exploring alternative image-making methods. Rooted in historical and often camera-less techniques, her work fosters a direct visual and material connection between subject and photograph. Inspired by William Henry Fox Talbot’s foundational discoveries, she embraces photography’s core elements—light, time, and chemical reactions—while pushing the medium beyond its conventional boundaries. Through collage, experimental processes, and the use of natural elements like water, sunlight, and time, Brittanie challenges traditional photographic resolutions. Her abstracted images resist the pristine precision of silver or digital prints, instead bearing the physical imprints of their making. This approach critiques the patriarchal devaluation of nonhuman forces that have shaped today’s environmental crisis. By engaging with photography as both a scientific and expressive act—bridging the language of drawing and painting—her work interrogates the medium’s inherent deceptions and contradictions, offering new ways of seeing and understanding the world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Brittanie Bondie (b. 1984, Ypsilanti, MI) is an artist who works with analogue photographic materials and alternative processes. She earned her MFA in Creative Photography from the University of Florida in 2015 and has since taught digital photography at various institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Her first solo exhibition, Objective Material, featured large-scale, camera-less photographs inspired by nature. Brittanie has exhibited at museums and galleries across the U.S., including MOCA North Miami, the Detroit Artist Market, and Women Made Gallery. She currently works with cultural objects on paper at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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