Brooke Shaden

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“Why not explore the depths of the mind and soul and reach for something deeper than the reality that plagues us and traps us daily?”

My goal in photography is to make beautiful that which others find disturbing, to take a simple concept (be it birth, death, or something in between—life) and mold it into something complex and magnetic.

My photographs are meant to be read and analyzed. Symbolism is abundant in them, for what makes an intricate story if not visuals that mean one thing but stand for another? Our world is not so different from the disturbing worlds I create within my frames. I argue that my surrealistic images are even ...

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