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Gardner is a self-taught photographer, writer, and visual artist living in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife and pets. He makes his photos with the Canon RF mirrorless system. His photographic process involves lighting each scene with flashes, colored gels, high-powered laser pointers, and LED flashlights rather than relying on post-processing techniques. While he does use Lightroom and Photoshop to edit, in almost all cases the lighting and coloring work is accomplished in person. He graduated from Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2019 and the University of Florida MFA in Fiction Program in 2020. In 2022, he was diagnosed with the chronic illness ME/CFS, which he continues to treat. He works as the creative head for an audio company based in the Bay Area. 

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gallery exhibitions:
  • stock & belle, “dormant season” solo show, memphis, TN, 2025
  • panopticon gallery, “how i spent my summer vacation...” group show, boston, MA, 2024
  • blackbox gallery, light and shadow group exhibition, portland, OR, 2024
  • icon gallery, jackson, MS, 2006

web exhibitions and features:

print publications:
digital magazine publications:
  • furious pure magazine, feature, summer 2024

instagram features:
  • the photographic journal 
  • dinermag
  • subjectively objective
  • your local newsstand
  • rage.
  • fisheye magazine
  • paradisaea magazine
  • float magazine instagram takeover
  • f-stop magazine
  • broad magazine community feature
  • broad magazine “Friday Feature”
  • noice magazine
  • panopticon gallery
  • artise magazine
  • jingusbingus (tiktok)

interviews:
album covers: