Bryan was born in San Diego, CA and lived in Northern California, Idaho and Alabama before his family settled in St. Louis, MO in the summer of 1987. He studied photography at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley and finished his BFA in Photography at the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 1999.

Bryan received his MFA from the University of Connecticut in 2001. That same year he moved to Washington, DC to work at Adamson Editions as a digital fine art printmaker. Later, he began his career at Advertising, Public Relations and Digital Marketing agencies. In late 2012, after 11 years in DC, Bryan moved back to St. Louis with his wife Kellee and their daughter.

After five years at Fleishman Hillard, Bryan started worked as a Producer in The Moment Studio. The Moment Studio is the content studio at digital agency Deep Focus. There he helped manage and run the Nestle Purina team, responsible for the social content of the Purina, Beneful, Waggin’ Train and Petcentric brands. Day-to-day responsibilities included producing original photo and video assets. In addition, he ensured all content for his brands was conceived, scheduled and delivered on time, on brand and on budget. After that, Bryan helped manage the creative department and the marketing efforts for ITC, an events and experiential production agency in St. Louis. Currently he is the Content Studio Lead at Cigna Health Insurance’s in-house creative agency.

Throughout this time Bryan has been consistently making photographs. While exploring a range of subjects, his work on the street has been the primary focus. These pictures are about finding moments, situations and experiences that speak to what it’s like to be an American. They also work on a personal level to explore nostalgia, the passage of time, solitude and the process of photographing. He is currently working on editing and designing a book from this body of work shot over the past ten to fifteen years.

Also, writing about yourself in the third person is weird.