Artist: Brooke Shaden
Website: https://brookeshaden.com/portfolio
Brooke Shaden is an American fine art photographer known for her surreal, emotionally charged self-portraits that blend dreams and reality. Born in 1987 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she began her career in film before transitioning to photography in 2008. This background in filmmaking helped shape her narrative approach to visual storytelling. Shaden often uses herself as the subject in her work as a way to explore emotions through a personal lens. Her images often focus on themes of rebirth, transformation, isolation, and inner strength.
Her work is easy to recognize because of its dreamy, painterly style, soft lighting, and rich contrasts. She often uses muted, earthy colors and balanced compositions that focus on emotion and movement. Shaden composites multiple photos, textures, and tones to build haunting yet beautiful scenes that feel both realistic and surreal. Her skill with digital editing turns photography into something that feels like visual poetry.
In my own project, I want to expand on Shaden’s emotional storytelling and her creative use of dreamlike compositing. I’m inspired by how she uses symbolism to construct meaning within the atmosphere of her pieces. Like her, I plan to composite textures and images as a storytelling tool to create expressive, transformative portraits, but with a focus on psychological tension and identity, using color and movement to evoke emotion and connection.
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