From an early age, Jeffery L. Brown had an overwhelming urge to broaden his vision beyond what he was seeing through his camera viewfinder. He experimented with various analog tools and techniques—double exposures, unusual film stocks, non-traditional methods, and darkroom tricks. He wanted to alter the reality of a given moment and expand his definition of what constitutes a “good picture.”

Advancing technical options now allow his vision to continuously evolve and grow. Brown sees one-button effects not as a threat to the purity of his art, but rather as a growing set of brushes for his creative palette. His images go far beyond the overlay of a single effect and are the result of hundreds of layers and untold hours of critical decisions and artistic execution.

Jeffery L. Brown has revisited a lifetime of photo archives and has comfortably embraced his compulsion to alter the verisimilitude of a well-composed and exposed photograph. He has realized that he doesn't necessarily remember people, places, and things in a perfectly framed world. Instead, he prefers those fragments of moments that come together when he forms his own version of reality.