BIO 

Brittany Markert (b. 1987, USA) is a New Orleans based photographer, darkroom printer, bookmaker, filmmaker, and educator. Her long-term project, In Rooms, explores the unconscious, feminine transformation, ritual, sexuality, grief, and psychological integration through staged interior worlds.

Her work has been exhibited in the United States, France, Denmark, and Belgium, including Brandts Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Untitled Space in New York and La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles. Markert’s silver gelatin prints are held in private collections in more than twenty countries. In 2017, she expanded In Rooms into 16mm filmmaking, furthering the project’s dialogue with mental health, inner life, surrealism, and the writings of Carl Jung. In 2026, she is in the early stages of building In Rooms Foundation, an infrastructure of care, support, education and affordable access for artists, women and seekers of truth.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In Rooms began in the winter of 2011 as a visual diary, when Brittany first picked up a 35mm camera and began using photography as a way to express & escape her feelings, and release her inner worlds. What started as an intuitive method of survival gradually evolved into an ongoing visual narrative, an abstract diary of the unconscious, primarily constructed through self-portraiture and staged interiors.

In 2014, after acquiring a Hasselblad, the project deepened into a rigorous and sustained practice. The rooms became a psychic chamber, each building on the one prior. Within these evolving spaces, figures appear and reappear as archetypal witnesses floating between worlds — the oracle, shadow, maiden, trickster, self and others.

Rooted in analog photography and darkroom printing, In Rooms is shaped by slowness, ritual, and the uncertainty of photographic alchemy. Brittany is interested in what can be revealed when the image speaks from a place deeper than intention and the present moment.

The work draws from surrealism, occult symbolism, Jungian psychology, horror, cinema, and the emotional architecture of domestic spaces and relationship dynamics. Mirrors, veils, doorways, masks, and windows recur as symbolic thresholds between reality and the invisible. The body is a site of confrontation and transformation, moving over the years between seduction and sovereignty, collapse and resurrection, and silence and revelation.

In the spirit of a personal diary, In Rooms is published in chronological volumes of artist books. In Rooms Volume 1 was released in May 2016, Volume 2 in September 2018, and Volume 3 in May 2025. Across photography, film, writing, and bookmaking, In Rooms remains a study of integration and psychological evolution. What happens when a woman turns inward, enters the room, and chooses to leave changed?

Influences: Francesca Woodman, David Lynch, Duane Michals, Hans Bellmer, Slyvia Plath, Lauren Simonutti, Claude Cahun, Unica Zorn, Maya Deren, Joel Peter Witkin, Carl Jung, Diane Arbus, The Twilight Zone, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins, and many others…