Brechin Flournoy

Brechin Flournoy’s career in the creative arts is a journey of self-invention.  Brechin’s visual practices span over 35 years of experimentation in performances, installations, photography, video, and mixed-media designs. Brechin’s art photography is an outgrowth of her lifelong studies in dance, particularly Butoh dance, a contemporary dance genre from Japan.  Each image is a meditation on the earth body and its connection to the human body. From stark landscapes to abstract details, Brechin calls attention to the overlooked – or ordinary- moments that we pass by.

Brechin’s photo documentation of live dance is published internationally and used in marketing campaigns for dance companies and festivals.

She exhibits locally and is building an online store. Brechin’s publishing credits include the San Francisco Chronicle (cover story and several pages of images), cover art for ArtistCloseupMagazine (based in the Netherlands), Artdoc Magazine, and F-Stop online exhibitions and books. Her photographs are included in “Science Not Silence,”  National March for Science (pub. NMS-MIT 2018), photo books  documenting Flyaway Productions (2018-2023), and books about choreographers. Official photographer: Carnaval San Francisco, the Women’s March, and the Science March.