Biography
British, b. 1987
Bradley is based in Istanbul, Turkey since 2012. He began his career freelancing across Asia from 2005 until 2010, assisting fashion photographer Ram Shergill in London, and as a set-photographer on Bollywood productions across Europe. His personal work often focuses on themes of identity, migration, the concept of home, and the implications of geopolitics on individuals.
Bradley’s photography combines strong storytelling with visual intimacy and context. His work includes feature stories and portrait assignments for international newspapers, magazines, and online news media from Turkey, the Balkans, Europe, and the Middle East. He’s a National Geographic Explorer, a Pulitzer Center grantee, and has received support from the Arts Council England.
His first long-term project, Kütmaan, began in 2010 and tells the stories of LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees from Iraq, Iran, and Syria, who were forced to flee their homes due to their sexuality or gender identity. This work led to his most recent body of personal work, Gayropa, a visual documentation of queer migration to Europe.
He likes to play with new ways to visualise stories through non-traditional photojournalistic methods (FEVER, Syrian Nakba, SEXugees). More recently, Bradley’s work has looked at how people are navigating our changing climate.
Isolated in a generic hotel room amongst the drab grey of Istanbuls sprawling concrete suburbs, 19 year old Yuto from Japan spends his days between his room and the physiotherapy sessions in the hotels basement.
On 29th October 1923, a modern nation rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
It’s the most tranquil and magnificent backdrop to our planet’s climate catastrophe, and the ramifications for Greenland, as well as its perspective on climate change, are as unique as its landscape.
In the patchwork of peoples, cultures and religions that makes up the Caucasus region, no conflict has proved more intractable and painful than the struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of western Azerbaijan whose population has historically been predominantly Armenian.
Over 13 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes due to the country’s ongoing civil war.
Kutmaan is the Arabic word for the act of hiding or concealing something.
