About Brooke T Ryan
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Awards
2025
Honorable Mention
My photo, Lily Pads, was awarded an Honorable Mention for the juried gallery exhibition, Botaical: The Art of Plants, by juror, Wendi Schneider. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont.
2024
Honorable Mention
2024
Visitor's Award and The 27
2018
First Place
Upcoming events
Event: The Coastal Landscape
Dates: 5 Sep 2025 - 26 Sep 2025
Jurors: Jacob and Alissa Hessler. My submission was one of 35 selected for the gallery exhibition.
The meeting of land and water is a place of transformation—a space where motion and stillness, power and tranquility, exist side by side. The Coastal Landscape is a juried photography exhibition celebrating the diverse character of coastlines, shorelines, and waterscapes.
We’re seeking photographs that capture the beauty, power, and mood of coastal environments—from dramatic waves to quiet shores. All photographic styles, from traditional to experimental, are welcome.
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Event: Botanical: The Art of Plants
Dates: 4 Apr 2025 - 25 Apr 2025
Juror: Wendi Schneider. My submission, Lily Pads received an Honorable Mention
Wild or cultivated, plants of all kinds define landscapes, provide a sense of place, and connect us to the natural world. Whether captured in the landscape, a garden, or a studio, we are looking for images that reveal the spirit and character of plants as well as our intimate connection to them. All photographic styles and processes are welcome.
Event: Life in Motion
Dates: 1 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2025
Juried online exhibition.
Event: Earth - Water - Sky
Dates: 1 Jun 2024 - 30 Jun 2024
Solo exhibition: As a youth growing up in Cazenovia, Brooke spent days out in nature with a camera and nights searching the night sky with a telescope. Today, her photographic art serves as a reminder of what we must preserve here on Earth. She often combines the pursuits of her youth to create photo composites, juxtaposing the starry night sky with landscapes and seascapes to illustrate the sense of calm it evokes and to remind us of its eternal presence.
While Brooke cherishes the colors of changing seasons, she also appreciates the monochromatic effect snow has on the landscape. She is drawn to photograph nature’s more subtle beauty, extracting and enhancing using experimental techniques and during post-processing.
Brooke's photos have been in juried exhibitions around the country. She has been selling her photographic art online since 2011 and you can find it at major retailers including Macy’s, Wayfair, and Target, as well as on book covers.
Event: Sanctuary
Dates: 1 Mar 2024 - 11 Apr 2024
Theme: Sanctuary
Event: Monochrome
Dates: 2 Feb 2024 - 23 Feb 2024
Juror: Henry Horenstein. My image, Mushroom, received an Honorable Mention.
Event: Square III
Dates: 1 Feb 2024 - 28 Feb 2024
Square format.
Event: Area Share
Dates: 10 Feb 2022 - 20 Mar 2022
CazArts Members Exhibition - "AREA SHARE: Community Enriching Community"
Event: Quiet Landscape
Dates: 30 Apr 2021 - 21 May 2021
Juried international exhibition featuring quiet landscapes - one in gallery, one online. Jurors: Jacob and Alissa Hessler
Two of my photos were selected, one for the gallery exhibition and one online.
Event: Hometown
Dates: 1 Feb 2021 - 31 Mar 2021
Photography featuring the theme, Hometown.
Event: Primary Colors
Dates: 1 Feb 2021 - 2 Feb 2022
International Juried Exhibition; Juror: Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA. Due to Covid, the exhibition was online.
Won Juror's Selection for my photo, Yellow Bus.
Event: Winterfest Exhibition
Dates: 1 Feb 2020 - 31 Mar 2020
Exhibition for local visual artists.
Event: Reveal - Member's Exhibition, Juried
Dates: 4 Oct 2019 - 26 Oct 2019
Juried exhibition of the members of the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, New York. Two of my macrophotographs were included: A tiny, dew-covered spider web, and a mushroom on the forest floor which was used on the marketing materials for the event.
Event: Interpretation - Juried Online Exhibition
Dates: 1 Sep 2019 - 30 Nov 2019
Entrants to this exhibition submitted work that embodied a poem with a nature theme. Mine was a photo of vibrant red Maple leaves floating in dark water.
Event: Caz Arts Alliance - Members’ Show
Dates: 22 May 2019 - 31 May 2019
1st Annual Member's Show of the Caz Arts Alliance. My submission was a color photograph of a blue door in Venice, Italy.
Event: In Motion - Juried Online Exhibition
Dates: 1 Feb 2019 - 28 Feb 2019
This juried photography exhibition features images that embody the concept of motion. My submission was a triptych of a snail crawling across a leaf.
Event: Solo Exhibition
Dates: 1 Feb 2018 - 28 Feb 2018
Solo exhibition featuring my nature and travel photogrpahy.
Event: fPOE Group Show
Dates: 1 Oct 2016 - 31 Oct 2016
An exhibition of photographs made by Female Photographers of Etsy from around the world. My work was a manipulated photograph of a window in a stone building in Austria surrounded by purple vines.
Event: fPOE Group Show
Dates: 2 Jan 2016 - 31 Jan 2016
An exhibition of photographs made by Female Photographers of Etsy from around the world. My work was a manipulated photograph of a window in a stone building in Austria surrounded by purple vines.
Event: All Cape Cod, Open Juried
Dates: 22 May 2014 - 16 Jun 2014
Open juried exhibition of Cape Cod themed art.
Event: Inspirations, Juried
Dates: 15 Feb 2014 - 15 Mar 2014
Juried exhibition of work on subjects that inspire. Mine was a country road lined with autumn colors, laundry on a clothesline, and a grazing horse.
Event: Points of View
Dates: 15 Jun 2013 - 15 Jul 2013
Painters chose photographs on which to base their own new art. The photographs were exhibited alongside of the paintings.
Event: Ghosts, Spirits & Past Lives
Dates: 15 Sep 2012 - 15 Nov 2012
This exhibition, which falls during Halloween, featured art befitting the season. My submission was a manipulated black and white photograph of a crow in a cemetery.
Event: Points of View
Dates: 1 Jun 2012 - 30 Jun 2012
Painters chose photographs on which to base their own new art. The photographs were exhibited alongside of the paintings.
Event: Photography Exhibit
Dates: 2 Jan 2012 - 31 Jan 2012
Exhibition of Arts Alliance member's photographs.
Event: Birds and Nests
Dates: 1 Oct 2011 - 31 Oct 2011
An exhibition of bird and nest-oriented art. My photograph was a photomontage which was comprised of images of a nest, flowers, and an excerpt from a French dictionary.
Event: Artists of Madison County – Juried
Dates: 15 Sep 2010 - 15 Oct 2010
Juried Exhibition of artists living in Madison County, New York. My pieces were black and white, hand-colored gelatin-silver photographs.
Event: Solo Exhibition
Dates: 1 Nov 2005 - 30 Nov 2005
Solo exhibition featuring my black and white, hand-painted photographs.
Biography
Brooke 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.
Brooke's photography has been exhibited across the USA, is on book covers, is sold by major retailers, and is in homes worldwide.
