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CHELSEA
BRIMSTIN

BIO

Chelsea Brimstin is an interdisciplinary photographer, writer, and digital media producer working in Toronto, Ontario, with licensing by Thursday's Child Global. Chelsea holds a BA in Creative Writing with a Minor in Mathematics from the Western University (2017). Being immersed in the queer community, their practice explores boundaries, highlighting the spaces where contrasting forces meet. Whether extending that exploration to capturing the perfect moment at a concert or to creatively calculated portraiture, Chelsea aims to utilize both film and digital stills to encapsulate a memory in truly innovative ways.

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Chelsea has worked as a photographer for a variety of music blogs including Indie88, A.Side, The Culture Trip, Canadian Beats, and more. They have taken concert photos for artists like Florence + The Machine, Maggie Rogers, The 1975, MARINA, and Vampire Weekend. With a variety of work in the queer community and fashion industry, Chelsea has also captured photographs of drag queens like Brooke Lynn Hytes, Vanessa (Vanjie) Matteo, and A'Keria Davenport, in addition to fashion shows by Yung Alexander, Robert Atelier, and Sage Paul.

EXHIBITIONS

Chelsea has held two solo exhibitions, the first showcasing their concert photography at Antikka Cafe. The second exhibition, UNBOUND, was an exploration of safe queer spaces, highlighting what it looks and feels like to enter them, participate in them, and leave them. Hosted at The Freedom Factory, the collection grew from the interesting point of tension between looking at and experiencing these spaces through photographs, while still being forced to act within the rigid confines of an exhibition. Now, UNBOUND aims to use the tension between light and shadows to highlight the necessity of safe queer spaces. These moments of tense uncertainty make these spaces even more important - even more powerful.

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In addition to solo exhibitions, Chelsea's work has been featured in collective showcases, To Infinity And Beyond by Analog Forever and Up To This Moment by Hadley + Maxwell.

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NPCC Celebrates Pride | Neilson Park Creative Centre | 2024

To Infinity And Beyond | Analog Forever | 2024
Up To This Moment by Hadley + Maxwell | Mount Dennis Station | 2019

UNBOUND | The Freedom Factory Toronto | October 17th, 2019

Concert Photography | Antikka Cafe | October 10th - 17th, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

I'VE WORKED WITH

Local Wolves | Periphery | October 2023

The Luupe | Visions of Motherhood | April 2023

Docu Magazine | Vol. 26 - Best of Documentary & Street Photography | May 2023

Slice | Several Articles

The Food Network (Now The Flavour Network) | Several Articles

Maison Valentino | Photograph of Giveon

Billboard | Music Biz Headlines

Fashion Magazine | Several Photos

The Toronto Star | Several Photos

Indie88Toronto | Several Articles

A.Side | Several Articles

Canadian Beats | Several Articles

The Culture Trip | Several Articles

Ontario's Southwest | Several Articles

Air Canada enRoute | Several Photos

Occasus | The 61 Steps To Becoming A Writer

Billie Eilish, Maison Valentino, Warner Music, A.Side, Truly Seltzer, Air Canada, The Toronto Star, Fashion Magazine, Bell Media, Pep Rally, Stackt Market, Yohomo, Festival M.A.D., Indie88, Slice, Food Network Canada, Format Toronto, MRG, Polaris Music Prize, SOCAN, Dermot Kennedy, MØ, Wintersleep, PUP, FIDLAR, Dan Mangan, Bishop Briggs, Luna Li, Winona Oak, Theo Tams, Larkins Band, Southwest Ontario Tourism Corporation, Coloplast, and more.

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