About Mallory.
Creative. Experimental. Film.
Photographic Art.
Mallory Brooks is a fine art photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. While pursuing a career in advertising, she began traveling solo with an interest in exploring cities, cultures and landscapes far different from her hometown of Tallahassee, Florida. It was during those early trips that her interest in photography started taking shape–she developed an eye for finding the beauty in ordinary scenes of everyday life.
In 2020, photography became Brooks’ full-time pursuit. Wanting to push herself and her work beyond the capabilities of a digital camera, she turned to film as her primary photographic medium, permitting her the freedom to play and experiment with its unpredictable nature. Through the use of an experimental analog technique called film soup, in which film is soaked to the point of destruction, she creates vibrant, unexpected and one of a kind photographs of familiar subjects and places.
Brooks has exhibited in group shows at Atlanta Photography Group, Cat Eye Creative and Kai Lin Art in Atlanta; the Experimental Photo Festival in Barcelona, Spain; and art festivals across the southeast. She has been featured on City Lights With Lois Reitzes’ “Speaking of Art” series, in Professional Photographer magazine, and named one of Analogue Forever Magazine’s 16 Film Soup Photographers You Need to Know in 2023.
Exhibitions
2024
Atlanta Photography Group: Airport 2024, Atlanta, GA
Avondale Arts Alliance in partnership with Atlanta Photography Group: Through The Lens, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Photography Group: Film Is Not Dead, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Photography Group: Choice 2024, Atlanta, GA
2023
Kai Lin Art: Group exhibition, Aura art show, Atlanta, GA
Experimental Photo Festival: Ausstellungseröffnung group exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
2022
Atlanta Celebrates Photography x Hapeville with Cat Eye Creative: Solo photography exhibit, Atlanta, GA
Press Shop: Duo exhibition, Atlanta in Color, Atlanta, GA
2020
Kai Lin Art: Group exhibition, Create Her art show, Atlanta, GA
2018
Atlanta Celebrates Photography festival: Good Tourist solo exhibition, Atlanta, GA
Art Festivals
ArtsQuest Fine Arts Festival, Destin, FL: 2024
SOMI Art Fest, Miami, FL: 2024
Inman Park Festival, Atlanta, GA: 2022, 2023, 2024
Virginia Highland Summerfest, Atlanta, GA: 2022, 2023, 2024
Chastain Park Spring Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA: 2023
Grant Park Summer Shade Festival, Atlanta, GA: 2023
Virginia Highland Winterfest, Atlanta, GA: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Candler Park Fall Fest, Atlanta, GA: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Cabbagetown Chomp & Stomp, Atlanta, GA: 2021, 2022, 2024
Randolph Street Market, Chicago, IL: 2022
Press, Publications & Honors
Award of Merit, 2024 ArtsQuest Fine Arts Festival, Destin, FL
Professional Photographer Magazine, Souped Up interview, November 2023
WABE Atlanta, City Lights with Lois Reitzes Speaking of Art Interview, August 2023
Analog Forever: 16 Experimental Film Soup Photographers You Need to Know in 2023, July 2023
Shoot It With Film: Mexico Travel story feature, June 2023
Shoot It With Film: Peru travel story feature, December 2022
Shoot It With Film: Los Angeles travel story feature, February 2022
Shoot It With Film: Pensacola film soup travel story feature, August 2021
Shoot It With Film: Valparaiso, Chile travel story feature, June 2020
Shoot It With Film: Spain travel story feature, October 2019