BRADY FULLERTON - EXPOSURE emerging photographers showcase

slur·ry
/ˈslərē/
noun
a semiliquid mixture, typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal suspended in water.

Slurry is a project documenting the people and places I encountered in my years in the concrete cutting industry. These images range from the exceedingly banal and ugly to the overwhelmingly beautiful. Between these extremes are a group of people suspended in this milieu. While, on the surface, the project is an attempt to document the lives of those working in this industry, the photographs also explore concepts of fragile masculinity, a particular type of Protestant work ethic, the cost of these attitudes, and the celebration of beauty found in the quotidian.

As a philosopher, my work in photography attempts to reconcile theoretical and pragmatic concerns. Within my artistic practice, Slurry serves as an example of a body of work that touches on concerns with masculinity as it relates to mental health, addiction, and prescribed gender roles. It is also an example of work that addresses my concerns about always trying to find beauty in the mundane. 

BIOGRAPHY

Brady Fullerton is a neurodivergent academic and photographer whose photographic work raises philosophical questions regarding themes of isolation, mental health, addiction, and beauty through a visual exploration of the quotidian and mundane. Brady is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Guelph and has been an analog photographer since 2005. He primarily works in a photographic documentary style, preferring the ways philosophical questions are raised in art over the ways they are raised in traditional philosophy. In 2012 he photographed dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, with the assistance of the Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) from the University of Calgary. This project was exhibited in The Little Gallery at the University of Calgary in 2014. He has been published in Canadian Art magazine, and his photographs have been exhibited at conferences in fine art and philosophy. In 2023 the Alberta Society of Artists will exhibit his photographs of the 2013 Calgary floods.