Torrey Bruinstroop is a photographer and writer who lives in Magandjin/Brisbane.
His photographs have been exhibited at Brisbane Powerhouse, Metro Arts, and QCAD Galleries. He is a two-time finalist of the MELT Portrait Prize, and, in 2016, he won the Kingshott Cassidy Poetry Scholarship Award. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from The University of Queensland, and his writing has appeared in Artshub, Jacaranda Journal, Sugarcane, The Tundish Review, and elsewhere.
With over a decade of experience shooting on 35mm film, his specialties include photobiography, documentary and fine art photography. His practice combines analogue in-camera techniques with minimal digital editing to create images that are rooted in the aesthetics of 20th century Queer photographers, such as David Wojnarowicz, George Platt Lynes, Herbert List, and Peter Hujar. By refracting contemporary life through old and new technologies, his work draws out the connections and disparities between this century and the last.
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