• 2010 3rd Ward Solo Show Top 25 finalist
• 2008 San Francisco Unscene Emerging Photographer Tour Winner

• 2010 Auto-Manic / Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2009 Barkeater Workshop Exhibit / 7444° Gallery, Saranac Lake, NY
• 2009 National UnScene Photo Competition / Elevate Lounge, Los Angeles, CA
• 2008 Under 100 / Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2008 Local S.F. UnScene Photo Competition / W Hotel, San Francisco, CA
• 2006 Connections (w/ gourd artist Carla Bratt) / Gallery 10, Sutter Creek, CA
• 2005 UC Berkeley RCSA Campus Art Show / Berkeley, CA

• May 2009 Hey, Hot Shot! Blog / featured contender
• April 2008 944 Magazine, San Francisco / inaugural issue, feature article

Cody Bratt is a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Rhetoric degree emphasizing in narrative and image.

Like many kids, I've played with cameras my entire life, but I only started shooting "as a practice" during college. Since photography serves as a vehicle to express my sense of wanderlust, my subject matter ranges from curious sea shots to abandoned couches at night in the Mojave Desert.

More abstractly, I believe a photograph can only hope to faithfully capture an emotion. To say it captures a complete scene is far too inaccurate, as the scene changes from moment to moment, second to second. In that way, I aim each of my photographs to be a love letter to the world. Each one depicts a life dripping in romance, seduction, melancholy, fear and hope. As the life around us deteriorates with the passage of time, this emotion is the one constant through our lives. Why should I photograph anything less?