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BRANDON SHEER
Brandon Sheer is a film photographer from New York City who currently resides in London. Brandon's journey into photography began while finding catharsis in the pursuit of creating art during the 2020 pandemic. With an abundance of newly acquired time during the lockdown, Brandon chose to seek personal and creative introspection. For much of his life, he identified as a musician, a title which he adorned like a medallion and a self-imposed label that felt almost interchangeable with his first name. With the near collapse of the music industry in 2020, Brandon began to long for another means of artistic expression. After buying a cheap point-and-shoot film camera on eBay, it quickly became Brandon's take-everywhere companion. 35mm was Brandon's analogue gateway drug that has since led to travelling across America using a large format 8x10 view camera. Sheer's work evokes a sense of nostalgia and isolation while attempting to find connection and commonality amongst strangers he comes across during his travels. Brandon is currently working on an ongoing body of work entitled "We've Become Like Strangers".
Brandon about the series "We've Become Like Stranges":
Over the last several months, I have begun working on a photographic body of work I've titled "We've Become Like Stranges." Thematically, this project is a visual introspection examining both the familial and societal changes that have occurred following both the 2020 global pandemic and the ongoing turbulent political landscape of America. Further, I hope that the geographical distance I have experienced by living in the UK will only further my perspective when coming back to the States.
While ultimately, this is part of a long-term project, I started this initial series of photos in 2023 and spent two weeks travelling along the East Coast of America. I precisely wanted to find seemingly forgotten spaces and the people who care for them and juxtapose them with the inclusion of portraits of my family members and other people who had remained constant fixtures throughout my life. I've included portraits of my mother, which were taken first thing in the morning, as I feel you are most vulnerable and aware of the anxieties plaguing yourself before you fall asleep at night, and when you first wake up in the morning.
While photographing the banal is not a new concept, this project is less about the photos themselves and more about the explorative process that leads me to access the spaces where these scenes exist. The curiosity that leads to walking into a space and pushing past the potential fear of rejection, all while having these interactions with strangers and listening to their life stories, is in and of itself what the project is about.
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Brandon about the series "We've Become Like Stranges":
Over the last several months, I have begun working on a photographic body of work I've titled "We've Become Like Stranges." Thematically, this project is a visual introspection examining both the familial and societal changes that have occurred following both the 2020 global pandemic and the ongoing turbulent political landscape of America. Further, I hope that the geographical distance I have experienced by living in the UK will only further my perspective when coming back to the States.
While ultimately, this is part of a long-term project, I started this initial series of photos in 2023 and spent two weeks travelling along the East Coast of America. I precisely wanted to find seemingly forgotten spaces and the people who care for them and juxtapose them with the inclusion of portraits of my family members and other people who had remained constant fixtures throughout my life. I've included portraits of my mother, which were taken first thing in the morning, as I feel you are most vulnerable and aware of the anxieties plaguing yourself before you fall asleep at night, and when you first wake up in the morning.
While photographing the banal is not a new concept, this project is less about the photos themselves and more about the explorative process that leads me to access the spaces where these scenes exist. The curiosity that leads to walking into a space and pushing past the potential fear of rejection, all while having these interactions with strangers and listening to their life stories, is in and of itself what the project is about.
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