NEWS
March 14, 2013
Minescape is now available as an eBook through TED.com. You can download the book at a variety of sites including Apple's iTunes, Amazon or directly through TED.com for $2.99. Minescape: Waging War against Land Mines, represents TED's first every photographic eBook, as well as the first collaboration between TED and Daylight Digital. A part of the proceeds from the book will go towards Landmine Survivors Initiative, a Bosnian-based local NGO that assists with landmine survivors with small grants to help the survivors create a sustainable business practice that allows them to reintegrate back into society.
February 12, 2013
Brett's Minescape book is now available for purchase on Daylight Books website and D.A.P.@Artbook's website. Copies will not be available for shipment until April.
September 20, 2012
The Kickstarter campaign for the Minescape book, published by Daylight Books has begun! In only the first three days of the campaign Brett managed to raise 38% of the funds needed for the Kickstarter funding to kick in. Please make sure to pass the link to the Kickstarter campaign along to family and friends: http://kck.st/Sbga7N
There are so many great rewards available, from prints, to books, to having your name on a placard at every Minescape solo show for the next five years! Thanks for your support and passing the word along!
August 20, 2012
Brett will have a solo show of Minescape at Venice Arts in Venice, California. The run will be from November 10-December 19, 2012. Included in the run of the show will be an artist discussion evening on Thursday December 6, 2012.
June 14, 2012
Minescape has been included in the online magazine Flanerie #2. You can view the issue and the other photographers work here.
May 16, 2012
Brett will have his first monograph Minescape released in March, 2013 on the Daylight Books label! There will be plenty of news on this in the coming months!
March 28, 2012
Brett will be showing his Minescape multimedia piece at Open Show Los Angeles from 7:30-9:30. Open Show Los Angeles is a monthly presentation of photography in various locations in the city. Tonight's show will be at Venice Arts Gallery located at 1702 Lincoln Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 Information about the night's lineup of other artists can be found here.
March 21, 2012
Brett's Sprawl series was recently accepted for inclusion in Review Santa Fe. Review Santa Fe is held every year pairing emerging photographers with curators, publishers, editors and others looking for new work during a weekend dedicated to portfolio reviews, networking, and creative inspiration.
The listing of this year's photographers will be published here in mid-May.
November 2011
Brett recently completed a move from London to Los Angeles. He just completed taking a month to drive from his parents home in Nashville to Los Angeles. During this drive the foundations for his next long-term project were laid. The project will have photographs from almost every state in the lower 48 of the United States. Brett's blog will have periodic updates and photographs as the body of work begins to take shape. Now that he has finished traveling the bulk of the work in California will be made prior to extending the scope to the East coast this summer.
May 13-June 26, 2011
Minescape will be part of a group show entitled Collatoral Damage, at LOOK Liverpool festival. Other artists in the show include Simon Norfolk, Tim Heatherington, Edmund Clark, Lisa Barnard, and Paul Lowe among others. The show is at CUC Liverpool. Please be aware it is closed on Mondays. For more information, click here.
March 9-April 24, 2011
Minescape will show at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning as Brett's first UK based solo show. The show runs from March 9-April 24, 2011. The private view is March 9 starting at 6:30 pm.
March 3-April 4, 2011
Minescape will show at The Silk Mill in Derby, UK as part of a group show at FORMAT Festival. The private view is March 3 starting at 4:30 pm.
April 4, 2011
A discussion will be held at 198 Contemporary Arts to commemorate UN Landmine Awareness Day.
Joining Brett on the panel will be Nerina Cervic from Action Against Armed Violence, filmmaker Lennaart van Oldenberg, and a Stephanie Stuart, director of Handicap International UK.
Nerina was born in Bosnia but moved because of the war. Nerina formerly worked for Survivor Corps, she has dedicated her professional life to ensuring that governments meet the needs and protect the rights of victims of landmines and explosive remnants of war.
Lennaart is a filmmaker based in London currently editing a project about landmines in Cyprus.
March 25, 2011
A panel discussion will take place at 198 Contemporary Arts. Joining Brett will be photographer and lecturer Paul Lowe, and photographers Simon Norfolk and Wendy Pye.
The discussion will focus on places in nature that have a hidden, dangerous, man-made element to them. These places allow us to realize that at one point in our evolution as a species, nature was inhospitable and dangerous. Now nature resembles the pre-packaged, safe wilderness we encounter in most areas of the Western world. We have lost the inherent fear of nature our ancestors had only a century or so ago. When we as photographers go to photograph places that manifest this age-old fear, how does it represent itself in our photography and how does it transmit onto our persona? Do we bring that fear back or leave it there? Do we feel that our work is able to transmit that feeling?
March 24, 2011
Brett will be presenting a slide show at an ASA Collective event alongside other photographers and briefly discussing his work after the projection.
The show starts promptly at 7:30 pm at Cafe B at Cable street studios 566 Cable Street, E1W 3HB London, United Kingdom Map
Please RSVP to ASA's email: connect@asacollective.com to let them know how many seats you require.
March 23, 2011
Brett will deliver a talk at FORMAT festival in Derby. The talk will cover the issue of landmines and how his family's farm in Tennessee: Cabinwood, and how a painting by Fredrich Edwin Church influenced his ideas in undertaking the project.
October 16, 2010
Some work from Solstice will be appearing at Apiary Studios in Hackney. The work will be appearing alongside other photographs from the 198 collective as part of a show entitled Overexposed City. The show runs from October 22-November 14 with a private view on October 22.
July 16, 2010
Minescape selected for inclusion in FORMAT 11 festival in Derby, UK. The festival runs from March 3 - April 4 2011.
May 7, 2010
The Minescape photographs that will be included in AP26 are now in an online gallery here.
March 25, 2010
Minescape featured in PDN PhotoAnnual 2010. The magazine will be on newsstands starting mid-May 2010.
March 24, 2010
Minescape selected for inclusion in AP26 featuring the best American photography of the past year. The book will launch November 11, 2010.
February 24, 2010
Minescape selected for inclusion in Descubrimientos PHE 10 at PhotoEspana in Madrid. The work will be up for the Descubrimientos PHE Extra Viejo Award. PhotoEspana runs from June 9-July 25, 2010
February 8, 2010
Two Sprawl pieces, Plastic and Lawns, to be featured at The Renaissance Photography Prize in London from April 20-21, 2010.
November 9, 2009
Minescape pieces selected to show at New Visions Exhibtion, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. The show will run from January 15-February 13, 2010.
September 1, 2009
Sprawl selected as winner of OpenShutter competition. Show at The Photographer's Lounge in Swanage, UK from October 2nd - November 27, 2009.