Jonathan Bright

Jonathan Bright

Photography

Jonathan Bright

Viewfinder

Photographs, 2023–2026

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Viewfinder is a series of photographs made through windows. It began in the summer of 2023, in a small wooden church on an island off Newfoundland, uninhabited since 1937, and continued later that season in the upper gallery of the National Pantheon in Lisbon. It took about a year before I recognized the window as the subject of the series.

The window both reveals the world outside and shapes how we see it. I keep its frame in every photograph, along with the light, glass and reflections that alter the view. The finished series will have eight photographs, and five of them are shown here.

We Were Here, 2023 Little Fogo Islands, Newfoundland One edition is offered at Art With Heart 2026, in support of Casey House.
Outgrowth, 2024 Asheville, North Carolina
Pantheon, 2023 Lisbon
Capital, 2026 Ottawa
Looking Back, 2024 Charles Town, West Virginia

On The Brink

Fogo Island and the Little Fogo Islands, July 2023

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Life lived between land and sea, in a place that seems inhospitable until you know where to look.

Honourable mention, ND Photography Awards 2023.

On The Brink, No. 1, 2023 Fogo Island, Newfoundland
On The Brink, No. 4, 2023 Fogo Island, Newfoundland
On The Brink, No. 6, 2023 Fogo Island, Newfoundland
On The Brink, No. 5, 2023 Fogo Island, Newfoundland
On The Brink, No. 12, 2023 Fogo Island, Newfoundland

Prints

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Jonathan Bright