Brigitte Dodd

Brigitte Dodd finds inspiration from personal experiences and through the everyday. She has been influenced by works from Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Nan Goldin as well as her professors and peers. Brigitte’s images compose space, colour, texture, people, places and things. Theses qualities occupy her strong, pure, vast, and ever growing portfolio of enticing photographs.

Brigitte attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, NS) where she earned a B.F.A degree with a major in Photography and a minor in Art History. Brigitte builds on her craft with extensive experience in black and white and colour printing and also studio lighting techniques. In addition to photo finishing, Brigitte’s operative knowledge of photography includes extensive experience with 35mm, medium format, pinhole photography, and digital photography.

The personal projects of Brigitte Dodd reflect the styles of a street photographer, news photographer, documentarist, and realist.

Currently, Brigitte Dodd is an exhibiting artist, a freelance photographer, and works in co-operation with an Ontario based newspaper in addition to her continued work with personal projects.

Brigitte has mounted many solo and group exhibitions throughout the Maritimes and Ontario. She has been exhibited alongside her professors and other distinguished artists at the Halifax Festival of Photography (PhotOpolis – Oct. 2001). Her images have appeared in various magazines, books, newspapers, commercial clients, as well as C.D. covers.

Brigitte’s diverse body of work includes documenting a protest of the 2002 G-7 Summit Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia. These fleshy images describe the clash between police and demonstrators and follows the heated result that followed.

Brigitte Dodd’s skills as an artist, labourer, and entrepreneur are the demanding elements which drive her to create and succeed. Brigitte is continually looking for growth, adventure and travel. Her enthusiasm for learning and love for photography are her consistent driving forces.

"The Clash" G-7 Summit Meeting in Halifax where a approx. 350-400 Riot Police used excessive force - tear gas and rubber bullets on approx. 75 protestors (The G-7 meeting was the gathering of the World's economic super powers -> protest and demonstration was expected by all parties)