Bryan Birks

Bryan Birks is a photographer based in St. Louis, Missouri. Since starting his photography career in late 2019, his body of work has focused on portraiture using a 4x5 view camera.

His ongoing project, Articles of Virtu, is a study of the relationship between people and the cars that they own. Beginning as a small project about the cars themselves, it evolved into knocking on the doors of strangers' houses in order to photograph them. Combining portraits of strangers, landscapes of the American Midwest, and still photos from inside the owners' garages, he's captured the meaning of why some things are so hard to give up.