06/19/2025
I was that kid in the back of the classroom, head down, pencil gripped like a weapon, squinting at every damn line I laid down on paper. I drew so much, I practically punished my eyes into needing glasses. But the art alone? That was never enough. There had to be a why behind it. A reason. A heartbeat. Some deeper pulse pumping through the graphite. Every sketch begged for a backstory; an origin, a past, a cause.
So I started writing.
Not because I wanted to be a writer, but because the story demanded it. I had to describe what I saw happening behind the eyes of every character I created. But words moved faster than my drawings did, and my mind was moving at lightning speed. That’s when I had to drop the Reilly Method; the one everyone said was the "right" way to build anatomy, and picked up the Loomis approach instead. I needed speed. I needed flow. I wasn’t trying to sketch perfect mannequins, I was trying to capture life in motion.
I grew up on . Sharp lines. Chiseled jaws. Muscles built like tanks. But then I got hit with my first dose of , and that changed everything. The simplicity was deceptive. The mystery was magnetic. The silence between panels said more than the loudest action splash ever could. followed, and with it came motion, emotion, and an entirely new way to see story.
So I drew. Then I wrote. Then I fused the two; built in my own head. But even that started to feel like a holding pattern. I didn’t just want to imagine these people, I wanted to see them breathe. I wanted to direct the scene, frame the moment, feel the damn heartbeat in real time.
And that’s where the camera came in.
See, when I people, I don’t see a subject. I see a character. A role. I see essence. Some folks call it , some call it , but I know what it is. It’s what they’ve lived through. It’s what they’re not saying. That’s the part I chase. That’s the part I try to lock into every frame.
That’s the fire Dylan Thomas was talking about when he said, “Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” That line? That’s in everything I shoot, everything I build, everything I am.
I’m not just snapping photos. I’m documenting resistance. Defiance. Stories that refuse to fade out quietly.
Meet the hooded faceless figure.
This isn’t just some design choice. This character is me, stripped down to the truth. No face. No ego. Just presence. Just purpose.
He represents the way I see every project I step into; it’s never about me. I’m not the focus. I’m not chasing fame. I’m the one behind the lens, in the shadows, making sure the real star gets their light. That’s the subject. The moment. The essence.
This hooded figure is the embodiment of that mindset. Silent. Watching. Capturing. He doesn’t need to be seen, because the story he’s telling does.
And that’s what this is built on.
You shine. I shoot. Simple as that.
My name is Burt Brage, but in this world, I’m known as B-RAGE of B-Rage Productions.
And I don’t go gentle.
Ever.