Ann Bradford is an accomplished fine arts photographer, painter, and mixed-media artist whose work spans five decades. In the 1970s she lived and worked in New York City, capturing the magic and beauty of urban life, the collision of ordinary moments and extraordinary people. Her self-developed silver prints from that period explore the tension between spirit and absurdity, between the visible world we see and the inner truth we feel. Her work was exhibited at Castelli Graphics, collected by Leo Castelli, and featured in Print Magazine, placing her within the creative vanguard of that era.

Before NYC, Ann lived in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she with her two children. Though women were not yet admitted to Dartmouth College, where her husband studied, she attended classes nonetheless. Her artistic promise was later recognized at the Silvermine Art Center in Connecticut, where she studied with Richmond Jones and Paul McGuirk, two of the most respected photographers of their generation. She went on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University, deepening both her technical mastery and her artistic voice.

In the 1980s Bradford earned her Master of Divinity from Yale University, expanding the spiritual inquiry that had always shaped her photography. Her time at Yale deepened her understanding of art as both discipline and devotion, a way of seeing that makes space for mystery, doubt, and grace. She later served as a chaplain at Yale–New Haven Hospital, while continuing to make art and raise her children.

While visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bradford fell in love with the light, the sky and the spirit of the Southwest. Drawn westward, she left behind the shackles of East Coast materialism and settled in Santa Fe, where she continues today to create new work reflecting her lifelong fascination with light, perception and the search for meaning. Her photographs, paintings and sculptures share a powerful conviction that beauty, humor and faith coexist in the most ordinary moments when we learn how to see together.