Briana Platt

Briana Platt earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Hartford in 2024. Her background in fine art photography shapes both how she views and how she constructs images, grounding her practice in conceptual inquiry as much as visual composition.

Her current body of work, Mirror to Mirror, explores the metaphorical and physical possibilities of the mirror as both subject and tool. Drawing on John Szarkowski’s Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Briana engages with the dual nature of photography as a reflection of inward sensibility and outward observation. Through fragmented mirrors and frames within frames, she obscures, refracts, and reshapes her subjects, creating layered compositions that suggest both intimacy and disorientation.

In Untitled #7, seven square mirrors arranged diagonally capture fragments of a face—an eye here, part of a forehead there—blending into a reconstructed visage that resists wholeness. The resulting image points to the multiplicity of self and the impossibility of perceiving a single unified identity.

By embracing discontinuity, light, and selective reflection, Briana’s work invites viewers into an atmosphere of surreality, asking them to consider what is revealed, what is hidden, and what lies in the fragments between.