The Photographer Dina Broadhurst

A mirror of modern femininity—Dina Broadhurst captures beauty in all its raw, seductive complexity.

Dina Broadhurst Photography, Hot Blooded #2 Golden, 2024

Dina Broadhurst is a force in contemporary art, a visual provocateur whose mixed-media compositions blur the line between photography, collage, and fine art. Her distinctive style combines sensual imagery with bold textures, vibrant colors, and layers of found objects or glossy material, resulting in work that is both intimate and confrontational. Broadhurst challenges traditional notions of femininity, beauty, and self-image with an unapologetic, glamorous edge that feels both modern and deeply personal.

Dina Broadhurst Photography, Raquel on Bocca

What sets Dina apart isn’t just her technical fluency or her eye for composition; it’s her willingness to expose vulnerability while embracing desire, indulgence, and transformation. She doesn’t just create images; she creates experiences that dare the viewer to look closer and to see themselves in the work.

On Femininity, Sexuality, and Power

Empowerment comes from truly knowing yourself, embracing all your layers, even the messy or complicated parts. When you fully inhabit yourself, without shame or fear, sensuality emerges as something authentic and magnetic. It’s not about performance, it’s about self-awareness and freedom.

My work disrupts the surface image of beauty. I add layers, textures, and emotions that challenge the idea of perfection. True beauty, to me, lies in imperfection in the cracks, the scars, the stories we carry. I want my work to encourage people to look beyond the surface, to see femininity as multifaceted, complex, and real. It’s about owning your truth and rejecting the need to conform.

On Photography

I was first drawn to photography because of its ability to capture a fleeting moment and hold it still like a fragment of time suspended. What fascinated me most was how that captured instant could be reshaped, reimagined, or given a new story through cropping, editing, lighting, and perspective. Photography offered both immediacy and possibility: an instant image that could evolve endlessly. With the rise of digital photography and post-production techniques, that sense of infinite reinterpretation became even more exciting—every image became a starting point for new worlds.

On the Process

My process is deeply emotional and memory-driven. It often begins with a feeling—a mood I want to capture or a story I want to tell. I collect fragments of inspiration over time: memories, textures, objects, images, or even fleeting moments that linger. Some concepts remain dormant for months or years until the right pieces fall into place, like a puzzle clicking together. I see my work as building layers upon these collected moments—transforming raw emotion into visual form.

On Mixed Media and Materials

Materiality is everything. I’m fascinated by textures that tell stories, objects that carry time within them. A crushed can, a broken shell, shattered glass, or a faded page all hold a history, marked by life’s imperfections. To me, those flat are beautiful because they reveal truth. I also love incorporating natural, organic elements flowers, water, fruit because they carry movement, growth,, and the energy of life.

It almost always starts with a feeling. Sometimes it’s an object that speaks to me, as if it holds a narrative waiting to be revealed. If I start with an image, my instinct is to dissect it, deconstruct it, and build something entirely new, turning it into a different kind of story.

On Using Yourself as Subject

Using myself as the subject feels natural and empowering. There are no limitations or boundaries; I can explore freely. Self-portraiture enables me to. examine the body closely, observing how age, time, and emotion shape it. It becomes a way of exploring the full spectrum of being a woman; how we make our inner worlds, and how emotions can break through the surface, no matter how hard we try to conceal them. It’s a deeply therapeutic process, like having an ongoing conversation with myself.

For me, it’s pure empowerment. Seeing myself from all angles, the raw and the beautiful, gives me control over my own image and narrative. It’s about honesty, acceptance, and understanding. I can be both my own hardest critic and my most prominent advocate. That duality is powerful.

On Navigating Identity, Desire, and Self image

My work encourages women to step into their power, feeling confident, fearless, and unapologetically themselves. I want them to see that beauty lies in being authentic, in taking risks, in embracing both the weird and the wonderful. My wish is for my art to inspire women to dream, to believe in their own possibilities, and to move forward without waiting for anyone’s approval.

On Her Influences

Other artists and photographers inspire me, but so do my own life experiences; travel, love, relationships, and self-discovery. My memories and personal history are as much a source of influence as any cultural or artistic reference.

My surroundings often shape me. Fashion, design, and architecture naturally filter into my work because they’re part of the environments I move through. When I travel or collect objects, current trends and cultural aesthetics seep into my visual language. My life’s moments, what I’m drawn to, and what I’m experiencing become an endless well of inspiration.

On Current and Future Work

I’m exploring the power of self—learning to accept and nurture every part of myself. My current focus is on presence and letting go of control, realizing that the journey —the process of becoming —is far more important than any destination. I’m interested in themes of authenticity, courage, and self-expression.

I also want to continue exploring how discarded or overlooked items can be transformed into something powerful and new. Working more with 3D, more repurposed and recycled materials, and creating sculptures from ready-made objects.

Dina Broadhurst embodies everything A Woman stands for: boldness without apology, beauty without conformity, and the audacity to confront every layer of self. Her work strips away illusion and reframes femininity as raw, magnetic, and endlessly complex a mirror not of perfection, but of truth.

She doesn’t create to please; she creates to provoke. To disrupt. To liberate. In Broadhurst, we find a kindred force one that refuses silence, rejects erasure, and revels in the full spectrum of womanhood. Through her lens, we meet ourselves again: scarred, sensual, unapologetic, and unbreakable.