ABOUT BRITTANY JUSTICE

Brittany Justice

Meet the Artist

Observation as Language

For more than twenty years, Brittany Justice has used the camera as both a form of translation and a way of belonging. Working in 35mm film with the same Canon AE-1 she has used since her teens, she has built an evolving visual archive of American life — a decades-long meditation on how humanity shapes the world, and how that world, in turn, reflects us.

Justice photographs the environments people create — not their ruins, but their structures, arrangements, and patterns. Bridges, overpasses, walls, gardens, monuments, electrical lines: these are the vocabulary of her vision. She observes how we build, alter, and decorate the landscape; how we use nature, depend on it, and push against it. Her photographs examine the choreography between human design and natural order, how geometry and organic form coexist, compete, and sometimes find harmony.

Born in the industrial Midwest to a Polish-Catholic family and raised across a constellation of foster and military communities, Justice grew up both inside and apart from the world she observed. As an autistic artist, she describes photography as her first fluent language — a way to connect to humanity through patient observation. The act of photographing is, for her, a kind of study: a search for meaning through pattern, structure, and light.

Trained formally in photography, Justice earned her Associate of Arts in Commercial Photography and spent years in color and black-and-white darkrooms, learning the technical grammar of film: exposure, chemistry, precision, the rhythm of manual craft. That discipline remains at the heart of her work. Each frame is composed deliberately, often on foot and in solitude, built around line, light, and proportion. Her color is warm but measured; her focus deep and exact. She works slowly, allowing the world to reveal itself at its own pace.

Justice’s images are not nostalgic. They are contemplative — studies of how we exist as part of a vast, constructed ecosystem. Her photographs are populated not by people, but by their gestures: a fence set against trees, a painted line fading under leaves, the way sunlight traces the edge of a man-made horizon. They are meditations on coexistence — humanity as one of nature’s own designers.

Across thousands of negatives and two decades of travel through the Midwest and American South, Justice has assembled a living archive of contemporary Americana: a record of our ongoing attempt to understand and shape the world around us. Her photographs are quiet, measured, and deeply human — a conversation between curiosity and care, between intellect and empathy.

For Justice, to photograph is to build order out of complexity, to find connection through perception. Her camera is both microscope and mirror, capturing not what is gone, but what is continually being made.

Representation & Exhibition

Brittany Justice’s photographic archive spans more than twenty years of analog work documenting the built and natural environments of contemporary America.
Her photographs are available for exhibition, acquisition, and curatorial collaboration.

For inquiries or exhibition proposals:
trippingcherry@gmail.com