I'm J. Bradley Alan Faulkner — a photographer and visual producer based in the Florida Keys.

I never set out to be a photographer. It was my wife who first introduced me to the camera — she showed me it could be a tool for self-expression. I would go out with her and watch her buzz around snapping pictures left and right. And then later, I would see the images she produced. They looked nothing like what I saw standing next to her as she opened and closed the shutter. They were magnificent — this whole different world I never stopped to notice, a world my wife could see, and she was showing it to me through her camera lens.

The camera grabbed me the same way music did. Before photography, I was deep in music — playing, writing, composing, and running my own recording studio in Fort Worth. Both have rules, techniques, the right gear for what you're trying to accomplish, and this constant push and pull between where you are and where you want to be. For my brain, that's not frustrating. That's the point. It's where excitement lives.

I've never really had an interest in photographing moments as they happen. I want to show others how I see the moment — how the place makes me feel, the life I see in it, and what it's trying to say. I walk until I find something worth listening to. Then I listen — until I can see in my head what it's trying to say. Then the camera and the gear and the technique become the tools to turn that into something real.

Currently, the Florida Keys are home. But I follow the coastline — both sides of Florida — looking for whatever has a story to tell. Wrecked by a hurricane, once cherished but now forgotten, natural and untouched, or damaged by human hands. Everything has a story. The story I tell is what I see, what it speaks to me, and what it wants me to say in that particular moment.

In 2025, my image Sequence received an Image Excellence Merit from the Professional Photographers of America and was published in their April 2026 magazine. This was my first submission. Stay tuned — I'm just getting started.

New work comes out quietly. The list hears it first.