Bradley Allen, a.k.a., Bradley Stuart, is a photographer, indymedia contributor and web consultant living in Santa Cruz, California.
Since 2001, Bradley has been contributing coverage to indymedia websites. Most of that coverage has been of events that took place in the city of Santa Cruz or at the university, UCSC. However, Bradley has also published reports from many other locations such as Miami during demonstrations against a free trade agreement, Houston and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the barricaded streets of Oaxaca, Mexico.
The website BradleyStuart.net began in June 2005 and serves as an archive of Bradley’s indymedia coverage since that time.
In February of 2006, he created the website elenemigocomun.net to support the documentary film, El Enemigo Común. Bradley continues to serve as the website’s publisher, where bilingual articles and communiques are frequently posted, helping to sustain networks of communication and solidarity between the United States and Mexico.
Bradley’s photographs are included in El Enemigo Común and numerous documentaries about the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, such as Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth).
Bradley’s photos have been published around the world; first through the indymedia network, and then printed in books, newspapers, magazines, posters and flyers. His photos have also been used as evidence inside courtrooms to keep people out of jail.
News outlets and organizations that have used Bradley’s photos include Democracy Now!, The Progressive Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Antonio Current, Gizmodo, Kaos en la Red, Infoshop.org, Bite Back, libcom.org, Earth First! Journal, AlterNet, Cannabis Culture, Free Speech Radio News, Free Radio Olympia, Free Radio Santa Cruz, Good Times Santa Cruz, Global Exchange, Bradley Manning Support Network, Rising Tide North America, Common Ground Relief in New Orleans, Baylor College of Medicine, Community Alliance of Fresno, Serf City Revolt, Antioch Arrow, Modesto Anarcho, SnitchWire, Socialist Viewpoint, SocialistWorker.org, American Friends Service Committee, Third World and Native american Students Press Collective (TWANAS), The Project, Disorientation Guide to UCSC, as well as the ILWU Dispatcher and other labor unions, non-profit organizations, musicians and indymedia newspapers and films.
Bradley moved to Santa Cruz in the summer of 2000 to attend UCSC as a transfer student, and graduated in 2002 with a degree in Environmental Studies. Surprisingly enough, there were not any campus-based student environmental organizations at UCSC in 2000. In 2001, Bradley co-founded the Student Environmental Center at UCSC, which has become an institution within the university.
In 2006, Bradley returned to UC Santa Cruz to participate in the school’s new Social Documentation program. His focus was photography and website development. Bradley graduated with a master’s degree in 2008.
When not situated behind a camera or computer, Bradley enjoys riding his bicycle along the coast in Santa Cruz and being in nature.
