
Series: the kids Were alright - 2013v2023
the kids Were alright - Myanmar 2013v2023
From 1962 to 2012, Myanmar was a military dictatorship closed off from the world. Myanmar opened to the world in 2012. In 2013, when I visited, there was so much hope. Cellphones were prevalent, and the kids absorbed everything from the web. The kids were creatively combining every influence. They mixed Myanmar’s traditional thanaka face paint with modernity. I was inspired because I knew - the kids are alright - and amazing.
In 2021 the junta again seized power in a coup. Massive peaceful protests were brutally put down and un-armed civilians were slaughtered. The People's Defense Armed Forces (PDF) was created to be the armed wing of the National Unity Government. Many youths joined the war against the military.
Ten years after I took photos of these marvelous kids, I wondered where they are now. In this series, diptychs juxtapose 2013 images with 2023 words from contemporary resistance fighters.
More Myanmar Information
Myanmar News:
Myanmar Now
Irrawaddy
Mizzima
Frontier Myanmar
Free Burma Rangers
Human Rights Organizations:
Burma Campaign UK
Clear View (Myanmar)
Mutual Aid Myanmar
Baydar Collective
Biennials
Ballarat Biennial, Australia
Festival de la Luz 2014 Biennial, Argentina
Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial, NYC
Museums
MoMA Rio de Janeiro Brazil (acquisition)
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Argentina
The Griffen Museum (Boston Globe article)
Awards
Arte Leguna 17: Selecton 2022
International Photo Awards 2008 to 2022
PDN Photo Annual, New York
Chosen Portland's Best Fine Art Photography
Show announcement press release: The Independent is pleased to present photographs by Brad Carlile as our inaugural exhibition. Carlile was one of the winners of the 2009 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial. The Hearst Biennial judges Peter Lindbergh, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, & John A. Bennette, III. chose 8 photographers from over 1,000 entries.
Empty hotel rooms from all over the world form the basis of these works, all shot in multiple exposures over time in slide film, with no post-exposure or digital manipulation. The rooms are electric with acidic color, yet spare and detached by virtue of their transient energy and occupation. The perimeters of shifted space and time are blurred, giving a result both classic and contemporary.
Houston Show

Jose (48"x60"), Bange, Rainie, Sevee, Alb (30"x40")
Reflections
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"Brad Carlile's Tempus Incognitus at The Independent took us on a tour of brightly colored hotel rooms, rendered in eerie long exposures."
That year chosen as Best Photography Show of the Year -
"The conscious choice to photograph places of transience is less a comment on twenty-first-century ennui and dislocation and more about fixing our complicated relationship with time’s passage to a place we know very well: the universal hotel room."
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"The luridness of the shade of green in Brad Carlile’s “Deec" — think limeade laced with gangrene — has to be seen to be disbelieved. Androids may or may not dream of electric sheep. But if dream they do, this is what the green in those dreams must look like."
– Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic
Portfolios
Mailing List
Artist Resume - Curriculum Vitae (CV)
SELECTED BIENNIALS AND MUSEUMS
2016 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC), Acquisition Show, Salta Argentina
2015 Ballarat 2015 Biennial, Austrailia
2009 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial, Heast Tower, Brodovitch Gallery, New York
2008 Foreign potografias, MoMA Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (aquired 2011)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Festival de la Luz Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Galería Alicia D´Amico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Independent, Portland OR -Portland's best 2011
2010 De Santos Gallery, Houston TX
2008 Galerie Maurer, Munich, Germany
2004 Refracted Move, Pushdot Studio, Portland OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Radical Color, Newspace, Portland OR
2014 20th Annual , Griffen Museum, Winchester MA
2013 Archisle 2013, Société Jersiaise, Jersey, UK
2013 GeoGráfica, La Fototeca, Guatemala City
2013 Blue Sky's PNW Viewing Drawers, Portland OR
2012 Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2012 Slideshow, Annenberg Photo, Los Angeles
2012 Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Blue Sky's PNW Viewing Drawers, Portland OR
2011 Photo Review, Stephen Perloff, Langhorne, PA
2010 14th Friends of Friends Auction, New York
2009 Rooted, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
2009 Contemp Photo, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh NC
2007 photo:net, Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany
2006 Environmental Photo, Art Wolfe, Seattle WA
2004 Don O'Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood CA
2004 13th Hasselblad Super Circuit, Austria, Germany, Qatar, & China
2003 World Council for Arts, Herbst Exhibition, San Francisco CA
2003 Scene/Unseen, Runnels Gallery, Portales NM
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS, & COVERS
2022 Arte Laguna Prize 17: Selection, Venice, Italy
2022 Deep Perspective, Int'l Photo Awards, New York
2016 Annual B&W Spider Awards, Beverly Hills, CA
2016 Int'l Color Awards, Beverly Hills, CA
2014 PDN Photo Award Winner, Fine Art, New York
2014 Deep Perspective, Int'l Photo Awards, New York
2013 Fine Art, Int'l Photo Awards, IPA, New York
2009 Hearst 8x10 Photo Biennial, Heast Tower, New York
2009 Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portand, OR
2006 1st Place, Photo Annual, Alaska Airlines
2005 Pacific NW Annual, Univ. of Oregon
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
"Contemporary Photographers With 'Radical Color'," Huffington Post, May 2015
"Tempus Incognitus," BETA in photography, Ballarat Int'l Festival, Dec 2014
"Tempus Incognitus," Exposure, Journal of the Society Photographic Education (SPE), Fall 2014
“The jury isn’t out at the Griffin Museum,” The Boston Globe, 22-Jul 2014
“Good Reason for a short trip to Delaware,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 29-Jul 2012
“10 Favorite Visual Arts Shows of 2011,” Willamette Week, 28-Dec 2011
“Brad Carlile: Confronting the myth of the great American road,” Willamette Week, 13-Jul 2011
"Brad Carlile at the Independent -- lost in space-time," The Oregonian, 4-Aug 2011
"Brad Carlile: photographing hotel rooms around the world," Portland Architecture, Aug 2011
"Photographer Brad Carlile sheds new light on hotel rooms", Houston Chronicle 9-Jun 2010
"ROOTED Exhibition", Luxembourg TV's KULTUR RTL.LU, Jul 2009
David-West, Haig, ed. Scene-Unseen. Portales: New Mexico, 2003
BLOGS
Huffington Post,
PDN Photo of the Day,
LenScratch,
FeatureShoot,
Apartment Therapy,
Design Taxi,
FLaxPhoto,
Portland Architecture,
Daily Serving,
Inkult Magazine,
New Landscape Photography,
Musee Vanguard Photography Culture,
Saathi Art,
Trendland