Hi! my name is Bekka Bjorke, and I’m a photographer and digital artist currently based out of southwestern Washington. I’ve always been very story hungry; I had artists for parents and folklore for dinner, and found myself constantly devouring every adventure I could. Photography is inherently about storytelling, and the tales that I want to tell are kind of what our childhood bedtime stories have evolved into, what has stuck as lifelong inspiration. Having grown up under the tropical skies in Hawai’i, came of age in the hustle and bustle of the Silicon Valley, and now settled amongst the mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest, my environment and eclectic experiences are a constant influence in my images and how I relate to the people in them. By researching and exploring classical and mythological motifs, I aim to capture that inner creature in all my subjects & digital creations to create a spellbinding vision of where those fantasies and our reality collide.

I'm currently studying neuroscience and anthropology at Washington State University to support more culturally informed and nuanced stories in my creative work, and build more accessible, interdisciplinary material in the creativity community. Creativity shapes our cognition, behavior, and culture; in my work I explore how art-making is both shaped by—and in turn shapes—the way we think, helps us regulate emotion, strengthens social bonds, and offers us a way to find meaning amidst the mess.