About Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant is an award-winning, creative and internationally collected artist whose main medium of expression is photography. As an accomplished artist his work includes Polaroid Transfers and sepia images captured with a Holga, a toy camera. His most recent creations combine his photography with Photoshop. The result is a meditative form of digital art.

He is an artist whose creations are consistently cited by notable arts organizations, are featured in respected publications and earn him entry into highly competitive juried art shows.

A native Southerner, Michael lived for a brief time in Kent in southeastern England. While living in Europe he was exposed to the rich history of art which inspired him to pick up a camera. He continues to experience this inspiration during his frequent travels to the great galleries, museums and other history rich sites in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Mexico and Canada.

Michael grew up in Albany, Georgia where he attended Albany State College. He later moved to Atlanta and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. After spending almost half of his life in the capital of the New South, Michael considers himself a native of Atlanta - a city that has the best of everything he loves.

As an artist Michael's goal is to create work that affects him and others. "When I look at a finished piece and for a split second, time stops and I hear my heart beating - I am unable to breathe and I am aware only of the piece and how it makes me feel. Then, I know that I succeeded."

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Michael was featured on Inside Analog Photo Radio. Listen to the program here.

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Michael Bryant was featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an article entitled, "Brookhaven fest features photos." by Richard L. Eldredge

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Selected Awards

Beaux Arts Festival, Coral Gables, FL
2011 1st Place Photography

Festival On Ponce
2011 Best in Show

Winter Park Sidewalk Art Fest, Winter Park, FL
2011 Award of Merit
2010 Award of Distinction
2007 Award of Merit
2005 Award of Merit

Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Miami, FL
2010 1st Place Photography
2008 1st Place Photography

Disney Festival of the Masters, Orlando, FL
2010 1st Place Photography
2008 3rd Place Photography
2007 2nd Place Photography
2007 Purchase Award
2002 Purchase Award

Images Festival Of The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2010 Award Of Commendation

Sun Valley Art & Craft Festival, Ketchum, ID
2010 Best In Photography

Artishpere, Greenville, SC
2009 3rd Place Overall

Brookhaven Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
2009 Best In Show

Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO
2009 Merit Award

Des Moines Art Festival, Des Moines, IA
2009 Best of Photography

Historic Shaw Art Fair, St. Louis, MO
2009 4th Place in 2-D
2008 2nd Place in 2-D
2004 4th Place in 2-D

Roswell Arts Festival, Roswell, GA
2009 1st Place Photography

Space Coast Art Festival, Cocoa Beach, FL
2009 Merit Award

Uptown Art Fair, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Best of Show -Photography

Bethesda Row Art Festival, Bethesda, MD
2007 Best in Category
2005 Best in Category

Cain Park Arts Festival, Cleveland Heights, OH
2007 Judges Choice Award

Inman Park Festival, Atlanta, GA
2007 Best of Show

Midwest Salute to the Arts, Fairview Heights, IL
2007 Best in Category
2004 Best in Category

Summer Art Fair, Ann Arbor, MI
2007 Best of Show - State St

Bethesda Fine Arts Festival, Bethesda, MD
2006 Judges Choice Award 2-D

Gold Coast Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2006 1st Place Photography

Artscape, Baltimore, MD
2005 Best in Show

Sandy Springs Festival, Sandy Springs, GA
2005 Best in Show, 2D

Dogwood Festival, Atlanta, GA
2003, 2002, 2001 & 1998 Poster Artist

Birmingham Fine Art Festival, Birmingham, MI
2002 Poster Artist

Bruce Museum Festival of the Arts, Greenwich, CT
2002 Third Place Photography

Bayou City Art Festival, Houston, TX
2001 (Fall) Best of Category, Photography

Fiesta of Arts, Boca Raton, FL
1998 Best of Show