Brandon Thomas Brown is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working across photography, printmaking, and mixed media, with a central focus on cyanotype portraiture. His practice explores ancestry, visibility, memory, and spiritual connection within the Black experience, using the image as a site of both recognition and disappearance.
Brown’s work emerges from a process of experimentation and introspection, asking how Black faces and bodies hold history, spirit, and presence across fragile surfaces. Working primarily with delicate Japanese papers, he allows water, light, and touch to shape each piece through tearing, fading, staining, and transformation. In his cyanotypes, water becomes both material and metaphor: a force that reveals, erases, carries, and returns.
His portraits often appear spectral, unstable, and in transition, reflecting the tension between what is remembered, what is lost, and what refuses to disappear. Through this process, Brown creates works that feel like remnants, rituals, and offerings images that hold the weight of ancestry while searching for new ways of seeing and being seen