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Torrey Bruinstroop is a photographer and writer who lives in Magandjin/Brisbane. He has been shortlisted for the National Photographic Portrait Prize (2025), the MELT Portrait Prize (2016, 2017), and, in 2016, he won the Kingshott Cassidy Poetry Scholarship Award.
His photographs have been exhibited at Brisbane Powerhouse, Metro Arts, and QCAD Galleries. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Queensland, and his writing has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, 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, and Peter Hujar. By refracting contemporary life through old and new technologies, his photographs draw out the connections and disparities between this century and the last.
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