Hey,
I’m Brett, and for the past two decades, I’ve been a professional photographer.
I started in the wet darkroom—silver and palladium, the smell of chemicals, the strange magic of watching a print flicker to life in the developer bath. Over the years I switched from film to digital, trading that alchemy for the quiet hum of inkjet printers and mural-sized output. It’s been a career built on light, composition, and the pursuit of the perfect frame.
But lately, I’ve wanted to work with ink, paper, and my hands again. That craving for the unpredictable, tactile reality of handmade art is what led to Distant Earth Studio.
What Is This Place?
Distant Earth is where I step away from the viewfinder and make things from scratch. Screen printing. Limited runs. Imperfect by design. Every print is hand-pulled in my studio in Vergennes, Vermont.
The subjects? Science, nature, sci-fi, fantasy—distant galaxies, science, nature, strange mythologies, the kind of images that live in the mind’s eye before they exist anywhere else.
Why “Distant Earth”?
The name comes from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot—the idea of looking back at our tiny planet from a vast distance, a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam, surrounded by a cosmos full of possibilities.
This studio is where I turn those possibilities into something you can hold.
Art for a Fictional Universe
The tagline is an invitation: this is a space for bringing imagined things into physical reality. The gap between what you see in your head and what you can put on a wall—that’s the territory I’m exploring here.
The shop is open. Let’s go.
Questions? Want a custom print? Hit me up.
PS: I’m still a professional photographer. Have a look at that work over at brettsimison.com.
