Brinnan Chantal is a photographer and researcher specializing in multimedia storytelling. Her work explores belief, ritual, imagined worlds, and ecological interdependence, using mediums of digital and analogue photography, filmmaking, sound design, and animation.

Brinnan grew up in South Carolina before moving to the snowy mountains of Utah, where she trained as a social scientist and photographer. She has since lived between the deserts of Arizona and the forests of Oregon, and has over a decade of experience as a freelance photographer working on long-form projects based throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. In recent years, Brinnan moved to Manchester, England, where she played mandolin in a folk fusion band called The Pickadillers and completed an MA in Visual Anthropology. Her dissertation research used collaborative filmmaking to document coral gardening and local experiences of climate change. 

Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology, with distinction, University of Manchester (2024)

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, Double-major in Sociocultural Anthropology with thesis and honors. Minor in Art History (2020)