David Brandy Photography

I love creating photographs. That may sound like a cliché, but it’s true. I’ve been a “creative” my entire life; however, photography was an unanswered calling for me for decades. Then, in 2013, I finally bought my first digital SLR camera. Tens of thousands of frames later, here I am. Today, I create lens-based art, which thrills me to no end. I have an eye for capturing images, and my artist CV includes awards and accolades to back that up.(I also appreciate the card my mom wrote.) My passion as an artist is to capture human-altered landscapes with a sense of the uncanny—a feeling of something being strangely familiar. My images evoke a sense of beauty and strangeness, reflecting a splendour we seldom notice. In my ongoing series, “Newer Topographics,” I have created a canvas that emphasizes the strong sense of isolation humankind feels when natural landscapes are juxtaposed with solitary manmade constructs. As an artist, my joy lies in the fact that it may take a moment or two for my images to unveil themselves to you. When they do, I hope you see the same beauty and feel the same sense of wonder that I experience. My work was short-listed as one of 20 finalists for the 2021 Aesthetica Art Prize. Two of my images were displayed at the York Art Gallery, UK. I received an Emerging Artists by Emerging Curator Award at the 2019 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. My art sold over-asking in the Curatorial Collection at SNAP 2019 - Toronto’s premier fine art photography auction. I was a short-listed finalist in the Quest Art 2018 National Art Prize and the 2017 Salt Spring National Art Prize. My art hangs in collectors’ residences and in commercial spaces across North America.