Artist Bio

Brad Carps is a Sacramento portrait artist and activist who was raised in Detroit. He works in a wide variety of mediums, including acrylic and watercolor paint, charcoal, ink, digital, clay, pastel, ceramic, and found objects. He incorporates a diverse educational background into his artistic practice, including fine art, computer science, politics, and religion.

maybe borrow inspiration from travis bio

I am a film photographer based in Sacramento, California. I studied Fine Arts at American River College from 2012 - 2017. This is where I found my love for film photography while working in the darkroom.

The current focus of my work is making intimate portraits with individuals and documenting the mundane of everyday life.

In 2021 I started a new film photography publication called Better Off Zine. Better Off Zine is a printed publication that features the work of a different photographer in each issue. The goal of these zines are to give photographers in the film community an opportunity to share their work and to make it accessible to as many people as possible.

I am also working on self publishing small run zines of my own work and collaborating with some amazing artists and individuals to create beautiful images on film.