Brooke DiDonato is an American photographer whose staged images distort ordinary domestic scenes into something quietly uncanny, with bodies bent across sofas, folded into fireplaces or perched on ceiling fans.She studied photojournalism before teaching herself the fine art and surrealist side of photography online, sharing early work on Flickr starting in 2011.Her studio is based in Austin, Texas.
DiDonato often works with self-portraiture and friends as models, planning locations and color meticulously rather than relying on chance, and traces her palette in part to her grandmother's home in Ohio.Her series A House Is Not a Home was shown at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona, Florida, in 2017, and later that year as part of “The Fence”, Photoville's traveling public exhibition across the United States. Later exhibitions include “Routinized Absurdity” at KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin in 2018 and 2019, and “NUDE” at Fotografiska in Stockholm in 2021 and New York in 2022.
In the fall of 2021 DiDonato released her first NFT collection, Make Yourself at Home, 50 images spanning a decade of work that she described on OpenSea as “a series of psychological landscapes reflecting on identity, relationships, turmoil and the changes that are necessary to move forward”.,In 2023 she released Stuck in a Pattern, her first collection on Nifty Gateway Curated, and was featured in a group exhibition as part of SuperRare's two-month takeover of a gallery in New York's Seaport.,In January 2026 she published the monograph Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer, gathering surreal work from across her career, including A House Is Not a Home, alongside previously unpublished images, with a conversation between filmmaker Eve Van Dyke and DiDonato's father, Bob DiDonato.
