Bryan Formhals
Bryan Formhals is a native of Minnesota. In 2005 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting. After suffering from writer’s block, he picked up a camera and began photographing the city. After four years of studying photography, he picked up and moved to Brooklyn, New York where he continues his creative pursuits. Bryan is the founder and Creative Director of La Pura Vida.Work by Bryan Formhals:
Photographs ©Amani Willett – From ‘Disquiet’ Amani Willett’s monograph “Disquiet” has just been published by Damiani. He was recently featured…
By Bryan Formhals
“My siblings and I spent much of our childhoods traveling with our parents. They kept us in backpacks and kept…
By Bryan Formhals
Carl Gunhouse in his apartment, Greenpoint, Brooklyn – April 6th, 2013/©Bryan Formhals Carl Gunhouse was born in 1976 in Boston,…
By Bryan Formhals
Tom Starkweather in his room, Bushwick, Brooklyn – March 26th, 2013/©Bryan Formhals I met Tom a few years ago at…
By Bryan Formhals
©Will Steacy “The internet, for lack of a better metaphor, makes up the branches of the tree,” he says. “But…
By Bryan Formhals
Natan Dvir – Anastasia Photo, Lower East Side, April 2nd, 2013/©Bryan Formhals Natan Dvir (b. 1972, Nahariya) is an Israeli…
By Bryan Formhals
©Marc Ansin Uncle Charlie was my favorite uncle. He’s my godfather. My grandfather was a grade-A hood, hustling, pimping women,…
By Bryan Formhals
Mikael Kennedy – Greenpoint, Brooklyn, March 27th, 2013/©Bryan Formhals Mikael Kennedy is a photographer living and working in New York…
By Bryan Formhals
“…in a world where photographic images are ubiquitous a photography magazine can seem redundant if not irrelevant.” – Jed Perl,…
By Bryan Formhals
“Sandi Haber Fifield’s photographs float on the colors of memory, mood, feeling, and suggestion. They combine the indistinctness of memory…
By Bryan Formhals
“Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more…
By Bryan Formhals
Photographs ©Faulkner Short Edit by Blake…
By Bryan Formhals
When it comes to family, it can be said that one often chooses to photograph what is in front of…
By Bryan Formhals
Steph in her room, New Glasgow, June 19, 2011 “Live Through This” tells the story of drug addict Stephanie MacDonald’s…
By Bryan Formhals
Justin Vogel – East Village, Manhattan, March 17th, 2013 (©Bryan Formhals) Well, Im not very ambitious, I have no grand…
By Bryan Formhals
Charlie Haughey is not a combat photographer He shot nearly 2,000 images between March 1968 and May 1969 before taking…
By Bryan Formhals