Hunyady finds herself in the scintillelating role of the artist attempting to codify her iconography in the most contemporary of terms while salvaging both the sense of abstraction suggested by the print as well as a figurative pipeline of her own design running deep into the history of art.

Her photography output comprises portraits, fashion work, and still-life for advertising, album covers, publishers and fashion houses. Being a photographer, graphic artist, and film maker to boot, Hunyady isn't as concerned with the medium being used as she is with the message she wishes to communicate and the entire creative process, which is hardly conventional:

"Nothing is set. I move into an unknown space with no security. I just let my instincts take over. In film there is a natural transition from photography to the moving image. It isn't always enough to stop life so abruptly into a frozen image. The contradictions that exist in life inspire me. I choose to print on silver paper, metal, and glass. Fire, water, and air are all elements I would love to interface my images with, possibly through holographic constructs. Sensuous, mysterious images against cold hard-edged backgrounds of metal or glass, evoke an energy that challenges the senses."

And how does she define her images: "Mindscapes. I trust what I feel and I recognize the spirit. After all the skin veils the sole." This is the exuberant way of thinking that Brooke Hunyady brings to her work, and the approach has been successful both in the commercial sectors-where her clients include Kodak, Ray Ban, Halston Borghese, Fellissimo, Fuji film, Bang and Olufsen, and Charles Jordan. And with her more personal research, like the fifteen-minute video portrait she made about photographer, author, and ecologist, Peter Beard. Most Recently shown at the International video and film festival,97. Earlier at The Anthology Film Archives Museum in New York 95 And it premiered at the XLV Biennial di Venezia one of Europe's most prestigious art festivals. A second film followed while in Germany, for Bang and Olufsen Denmark-based leading manufacturers of high-end audio equipment with the launch of their new Biosound system.

Brooke's almost overwhelming energy and enthusiasm is expressed in everything she lays her hands to. "Today is the future. I envision an awakening of the human spirit in the third millennium, a rebirth of images that support human dignity. We must take responsibility for what is shown to the world because we are deeply sensitive beings if allowed to be. This is the reality that challenges me."