Brad Daly

My Aunt Martha gave me my first camera.  A salesman at Service Merchandise convinced her she needed a complicated SLR, but she could never even figure out how to load it with film and was always turning to me for help.  Eventually the camera just moved in with me, and she ended up with a point-and-shoot that I still had to load for her.

I went to college at Birmingham-Southern but never took any art classes.  I have a B.A. in English and history.

Beautiful images in the movies are what originally got me interested in photography, and during my last year of college, a Utah photographer named Bruce Hucko inspired me to take it seriously.

I took a few UAB Special Studies classes before the program died.  Kim Riegel, Ken Boyd, and Pat Dagg were my teachers.  I also got to know Melissa Springer and learned a lot from her.

Today I photograph primarily with a Sony point-and-shoot that has a full size sensor. It’s very compact and unobtrusive.

I’m not obsessive like Garry Winogrand, but I try to follow his compositional strategy of paying attention to what gets in the frame and not worrying about anything else.