Susan Bryant earned her BFA in painting from Indiana University and her MFA in photography from Indiana State University. She retired as a Professor of Art from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, where she taught photography for 37 years. Her personal work includes gelatin silver prints, hand-colored silver prints, digital photographs, hand-colored digital prints and the 19th century wet plate collodion process, making tintypes, glass negatives and prints from scans of the plates.
Bryant’s work has been included in over 100 national & international juried and invitational group exhibits and 25 solo exhibits across the United States. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship. Her work is included in numerous public, corporate and private collections. She was represented by The Cumberland Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee from 1982 until its closing in 2019.
I see the world through the lens of my camera, and I see myself reflected at the same time. I use my camera to explore, capture and share what I find meaningful and beautiful in this world. I’m drawn to the light – both formally and metaphorically. I’m equally drawn to the dark; its weight and mystery.
I can’t imagine a better way for me to reveal emotions, experiences, moments of awe, fear or grace. My camera is my voice.
