Briscoe Park is a photographer, and increasingly filmmaker, whose work is rooted in the American South and built from personal symbols — churches, animals, recurring figures and specific Deep South locations — that carry private meaning he declines to explain. He began by photographing construction cranes and abandoned buildings around Raleigh, North Carolina, before shifting from single striking images toward sequences that build entire fictional worlds.
Park grew up in a household full of makers in rural North Carolina, where a brother played music and painted, a sister danced ballet, and a father drew and made cartoons. He credits long, unstructured stretches of boredom at his father's house, which had no internet or cable, with shaping his imagination. As a teenager he began photographing at night, first in an abandoned brick factory and later from construction cranes above downtown Raleigh. Questioning whether those images said anything personal, he began building conceptual sequences instead of single striking shots, developing the symbol-based visual worlds that define his work.
