Bruce Eesly (b.1984) is a visual artist and gardener based in Berlin, Germany. Working with photography, archives and generative imaging technologies, his work blurs fact and fiction to question narratives of technological progress. Eesly is interested in the status of photography in the age of AI and the increasing algorithmisation of our world. Reimagining archives and speculating on alternative histories, he employs artificial intelligence as both subject and collaborator. As a gardener, his perspective is informed by a curiosity about the history and impacts of industrial agriculture. His approach involves humour and questions the assumptions of photographic truth by intentionally embracing fiction and deception. Bruce Eesly’s work was presented at the Rencontres d’Arles (Arles, FR, 2024), Fotoraum (Cologne, DE, 2025), Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival (Xiamen, CN, 2024) and Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, DE, 2026), among others.
(The photo credit is: Liesl Pfeffer)
