Brooke T Ryan

Brooke has been selling her photographic art online since 2011 with nearly 300 Five-Star reviews. She views life as a collection of fleeting moments to be cherished. Photographing since the mid-1980s, her work captures these moments throughout the seasons: Leaves budding, unfurling, changing color, and then falling, birds building nests, raising young, and migrating, the brief appearance of shadows on sunny days, and the stark beauty of bare trees reflecting on water after the ice melts. She covets the ephemeral, amorphous forms of clouds and the ebb and flow of water.

All of this can be seen and captured with cameras, but humans are only capable of seeing some of the light emitted by the sun, specifically visible light. All cameras contain a filter that blocks other light - ultraviolet and infrared - enabling photographs to reflect how humans see the world. Brooke had that filter removed, her full-spectrum and infrared photographs now revealing a realm that extends beyond our vision, recognizable yet with an ethereal glow and an altered color palette, prompting us to pause and notice aspects of the world around us that we all too often overlook, inviting us to slow down and consider what is beyond what we see and perceive.

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As a teenager, Brooke took every photography course offered. She was a National Scholastic Art Awards Portfolio Nominee and was a recipient of the Regional Scholastic Gold Key Award.

She started college as an art major to prepare for a career as a fine art photographer, but then switched paths and earned a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology and a M.S. in Health Services Administration instead, working in hospitals in Georgia, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts before returning to creating art.

Publications

2026 Gathered Light Magazine. (6), 78-91.

2025 Featured Artist. (2025, Winter) Humana Obscura Magazine. (15), 6, 33, 36,
44, 74.

Humana Obscura Magazine. (2025, Fall). (14), 19, 29, 61.


Exhibitions

Field Work: Trees and Water - Juried Online Exhibition; Juror: Todd Johnson, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2025; Trees - Juried Online Exhibition; Juror: Geoffrey Koslov, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2025; The Coastal Landscape - PhotoPlace Gallery - Middlebury, VT, 2025; Botanical - A. Smith Gallery - Johnson City, TX, 2025; Botanical - PhotoPlace Gallery - Middlebury, VT, 2025; Life in Motion - Cape Cod Art Center, 2025; Sanctuary - A. Smith Gallery - Johnson City, TX, 2024; Square III - Decode Gallery - Tucson, AZ, 2024; Monochrome - PhotoPlace Gallery - Middlebury, VT, 2024; AREA SHARE - Reisman Hall Art Gallery - Cazenovia, NY, 2022; Quiet Landscape - PhotoPlace Gallery - Middlebury, VT, 2021; Hometown - Auburn Art Gallery - Los Angeles, CA, 2021; Primary Colors - New York Center for Photographic Art - New York, NY, 2021; Winter Festival Exhibition, Cazenovia, New York - March 2020; Juried Members Exhibition - Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, October, 2019; In Motion - Online Exhibit...