About

Brindle's work explores the intersection of technology, visual culture, and consumption, with a particular focus on how identity—especially female identity—is constructed, performed, and policed within digital spaces. Working primarily with photography, she investigates the ways online environments distort self-perception and redefine authenticity, particularly for women navigating the exploitative gaze of the internet.

At the heart of Brindle's practice lies a feminist inquiry into the commodification and weaponization of sexuality in virtual contexts. She is deeply interested in how women are often compelled to perform desire, confidence, or vulnerability as a means of survival in an attention economy that prioritizes visibility over substance. Her work confronts these dynamics, revealing the overt and subtle mechanisms through which femininity is commercialized, fetishized, and surveilled.

The internet serves not only as a subject in Brindle’s work but also as an aesthetic and ideological framework. Drawing on the visual language of digital culture—glitches, filters, feeds, and avatars—she critiques the hyper-individualism and accelerated consumption that define contemporary online life. Her images seek to hold space for ambiguity and resistance, challenging normative representations and offering alternative ways of seeing and being.

As a woman artist, Brindle views her practice as inherently political—an act of resistance against erasure, objectification, and silence. She is committed to crafting visual narratives that illuminate and uplift the complexities of female experience in the digital age.

Sophie Brindle recently completed her BFA in Photography at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She continues to push the boundaries of photographic representation in response to the rapidly evolving realities of virtual existence. Her work is both a reflection and a refusal—a call to reimagine how we see ourselves and each other in a world increasingly shaped by screens.