About Bryan

motivation, background

Motivation

Nature has always presented itself to me as something mysterious, a far more nuanced subject than what one might initially register. Those wild places that resonate deeply within us reflect our primeval relationship with the environment—and our yearning for what we’ve lost.

My work feeds our hunger for nature’s magic and mystery. I combine emotive landscape photography in still and animated formats with fanciful narratives, encouraging creative interpretations by stimulating the imagination. In my art, a tree becomes a monster, a fissure in a rock is the broken heart of a mountain, an old doorway steps us through time, and more.

My process begins with the photograph, looking for an unexpected compositional element. I then take inspiration from the scene’s tone to compose a narrative which is placed on an art label next to the picture in my still photos. For videos, I embed the narrative directly, apply zoom-and-pan techniques for animation, and add background music for ambiance.

Bio

An emerging fine art photographer, Bryan Sabol is a technical communicator by trade, a marine biologist through academics, and a lifelong devotee of creative photography. While pursuing his scientific degrees (M.S., Biology, Florida State University; B.A., Biology, Reed College), he studied photography at the University of Oregon. During his senior year at Reed College, Bryan was the photojournalist for The Quest, the school newspaper.

After decades of work in the high-tech industry, Bryan set himself on a path in 2022 to transition his ongoing interest in photography into a professional endeavor. Since then, his art has been exhibited in galleries across the United States, including Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, and Ohio.

Bryan lives on a cliff overlooking Puget Sound in Washington state, USA, where inspiration is as close as his back yard.

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