Brandy Bond

Brandy Bond, American portrait/fine arts photographer, was born on May 27th, 1980. Brandy Bond graduated from Milwaukee Area Technical College in 2013 studying Television Production. And attended DePaul University of Chicago studying Journalism. It was not until she traveled to Baltimore during the Freedom March (May 2015) following the death of Freddy Gray, in police custody, that she had her first art show curated by Cynthia Henry of Ayzha Fine Arts Milwaukee. When she returned to Milwaukee , she began political training to run for 16th district Wisconsin state assembly driven by the districts title the “Arts District”.While attending Milwaukee area technical college in 2011, she started an internship as a staff production assistant, working for Milwaukee public television. Brandy’s favorite assignment was an African-American inspired public television program called Black Nouveau. But often found discouragement at the television station, due to the lack of praise or support by her often burnt out senior-coworkers. Bond worked with Peter Frampton, Cindy Lauper, Nile Rodgers, Goo Goo Dolls, Carlos Santana, and various major-league baseball players. During a short internship in New York City in 2013, with public television’s Front and Center and newly created Speakeasy. Her career took off in the 2015 when she started to work for the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Foundation in Chicago as a writer and photographer for their by weekly newsletter.

Bond’s eye for a timeless photograph established her as the go to photographer for various black empowerment groups, as she began to be flown all over the country at the cost of various activism groups. Some of her most famous pieces would be the photoshoot with 1000 years of Rastafarian leaders, The 91st Birthday of Dr. William Finlayson, and the proclamation of Dr. William Finlayson Day, the documentation of Michelle Obama visiting Milwaukee, WI as well as the “We Got This” charity tuxedo walk.Bond describes her photography travels as photo expeditions, the various locations for these expedition span to the Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Atlanta, New Orleans, New York, Washington DC, South Carolina, Milwaukee, Chicago, and of course Baltimore. After photographing the protesters in Baltimore, one protester, later pepper sprayed by the Baltimore Police Department on CNN national television, ending the curfew. Bond realized how prophetic her work could be in hindsight.She impatiently awaits her first museum show, Bond barely gives the time of day to anyone telling her how slow of a process marketing an artist can be and insists that she will be showing in a museum in the very near future as well as the rest of her career, regardless of naysayers. After attending the Million Man March of 2015, Bond created her most inspired collection, that she calls “I’am A man” which documents the various fascist of the African-American male in America. And the rest will eventually become history.