Hello Brynn Alise, it is so nice to be speaking with you here today. To begin can you introduce yourself to our community? Your name, where you are from, and the mediums you work in?

Hi Dave, thank you so much for having me. It is an honor to get to speak with you today. My name is Brynn Alise and I am from Boulder, Colorado. I spent the first half of my life living at the beach in Southern California and then moved to Colorado for the mountain life here.

I am a photographer with a focus on landscapes, seascapes, and wildlife, but I consider myself to be a generalist with my photography and shoot any and all scenes in nature that I am drawn to. I try to educate others and share about conservation with my photography and find that I can do this well through any genre in nature photography. I tend to let scenes in nature, both majestic and minimalist, draw me in as I explore instead of setting out to focus on one image.

A beautiful way to describe your work, and Boulder is such a great place to be to explore the natural world. How has the internet played a role in the way you share your work with the world?

I started in photography about seven years ago and mainly used social media to share my work, particularly Instagram. About four years ago I set up my website and have continued to share images and blog there as well. I love to write almost as much as I love to shoot- almost. Then about 17 months ago I found web3 and NFTs.

I joined Twitter in May of 2021 and started to share my photography there as well. I started listing images on both OpenSea (a now sold-out wildlife collection of 50 images with 50% going to conservation organizations) and on Foundation. I was accepted to SuperRare in early March of 2022 and list my work there now.

I don't think I would be able to share what I love without the internet because I am not in art galleries and do not have my own gallery. I never had the time to make it a full-time career while raising kids and having one son with a lot of needs, while also running a non-profit we founded in 2010. The internet has been the only way for me to share my work.

It’s fascinating that the internet has given so many more artists a voice and an audience- prior to these technologies, it was so much harder to spread one’s vision with the world. Now we can have smaller communities that are empowered to do so much more.

I’d love to hear more about the non-profit. How can people help and get involved?

Our non-profit definitely won't be for everyone as it is faith-based, but we partner with local churches and medical facilities in the countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. We are starting to do some relief type work in Pakistan as well with all the flooding. We support nationals who are already doing great work in their communities with malnutrition programs, clean water, hospital and surgeon support at a hospital in the middle of the jungle, widow care, family stabilization programs, HIV Hope assistance programs and much more. We work where we have relationships and know our lead partners and we strive to defend the cause of the poor and needy. You can find us at http://e4project.org.

Wow. So great to see people putting so much effort into making an impact.

Can you speak a bit about your experience in the web3 community? How have the people you’ve met here impacted your life and craft, and who are some artists who inspire you?

I honestly have never loved a community more with my photography than the web3 space and the photography NFT community. I came into this space in April / May of 2021 with a group of friends that I made on Clubhouse. We all helped each other get started and they all become friends that I text with and talk to all the time. In addition to that, I have made so many new friends in the community from other artists to collectors and have just really enjoyed the relationships I have built more than anything else.

I am also really thankful for my core group of friends here as they provide me with honest feedback and critique on my work and help me improve. We have spent hours chatting, buying and flipping pfps, encouraging each other when we are down, purchasing each other's editions, etc. It is honestly hard to imagine my life without these relationships that I have made in the last year and a half.

The list of who inspires me in this space is extremely long, but I am very inspired by friends I came into the space with such as @benstraussphoto, @bryanminear and @ashtontekno as well as artists I met once in the space. A few that have really inspired me in the last year are @rachstewart_nz , @bajaninpdx, @aylaelmoussa, @MattDoogue, @GeorgeBTurner and @kokocuvier. I have about 30 more, but should probably stop here. I hate that I am leaving people out though.

Incredible- I share the sentiments and understand exactly what you mean- so many so wonderful people it’s impossible to name them all. Lastly- what advice might you have for someone earlier in their creative career?

I think I would share three things:

1. Be yourself. Don't let others tell you what art is or what genre you should fit in. Be unapologetically you.
2. Don't be afraid to fail. Take risks, grow, learn, fail, have fun, repeat. This is my latest line for myself as I have been putting out work that is different from what I started with and I am reminding myself of this daily.
3. Be a part of our community. Don't enter the space with the purpose of just making sales. You will miss everything we get to be a part of right now. This is such an exciting and new time and we need to all celebrate each other and the NFT space.

Well said, and what a thrill to talk to you here today and hear more about your craft and purpose. Thank you so much for the time and generosity of thought- to the reader, the best place to connect with Brynn Alise is via her linktree.