Brady Wilks

Brady Wilks (born June 3, 1980) is an American photographer, known for his alternative process landscapes. He works in historical and alternative photographic processes including acrylic gel lift / transfers and wet plate collodion process negatives, ambrotypes, and ferrotype.

Education Wilks attended Art Institute of Pittsburgh earning a bachelor's, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco earning a Master's of Fine Arts in Photography.

Career His work has been shown in galleries in the United States with a current focus on the mid-atlantic coast including Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia. He was juried into the Torpedo Factory Art Center of Alexandria Virginia as an associate artist.

Wilks moved from southern California to the Mid Atlantic coast living outside of Washington D.C. in Maryland. He currently works as an artist and educator focusing on alternative and historical photographic processes.

Wilks started teaching alternative process workshops at art centers including Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland. He has devised methods of alternative processes and turned them into a series of how-to articles first published with alternativephotography.com. Although he uses and teaches many alternative processes, his focus is on Acrylic Gel Lifts and the Wet Plate Collodion Process.

Wilks was a sponsored speaker at the Society for Photographic Education national conference in New Orleans 2015. He addressed the topic of concept and process with emphasis on getting over the novelty of alternative processes.