Bio

Bridget Haggerty is a fine art photographer with a previous career in event and commercial photography. She grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley where her overactive imagination lead her to wander the woods with her first camera in hand. Those photographic escapades helped her develop an appreciation of decay, nature, and hidden beauty. Bridget graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Photography. Since graduating, she lives and works in NYC using photography to pay the bills, document events, brand businesses, and now share her thoughts with the fine art world. Bridget also teaches workshops for beginner photographers who want to learn to speak through a photograph.

Artist Statement

I create photographs using practical effects and in-camera illusions. My photographs are digital captures, printed on archival paper. 

People believe photographs. We take photographs for granted as depictions of reality. There must have been some real scene at one time to photograph rather than just the whims of a painter’s imagination. How unsettling is it to be confused when a photograph defies truth? My work aims to unsettle, disorient the audience in order to provoke confrontation of personal beliefs. 

In front of my camera, I use prisms, mirrors, and forced perspective to play tricks. Little of my work is manipulated in post-production anymore--my older pieces were heavily composited. Occasionally I use double exposure to further distort reality.