Patrick Brown (photographer)
Patrick Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 23, 1969 Sheffield, England, UK |
| Occupation | Photojournalist |
| Spouse |
Camilla Wøldike (m. 2012) |
| Website | patrickbrownphoto |
Patrick Brown (born January 23, 1969) is an Australian photojournalist and photographer.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
In 2019, Brown received the FotoEvidence Book Award.[8] He also received an Emmy Award for his work on the Alex Gibney HBO film The Forever Prisoner, which won Outstanding Investigative Documentary.[9] Over the years, he has also been honored with two World Press Photo Awards. His photography has been exhibited internationally at the Centre of Photography in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, and Visa pour l’Image in France. His work is also part of various private collections.[10]
Brown has contributed to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, TIME, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, and Mother Jones. In addition to editorial work, he has collaborated with organizations including UNICEF, UNHCR, Fortify Rights, and Human Rights Watch.[11]
Life and work
Brown was born in Sheffield, England, and spent his childhood in the Middle East and Africa before his family settled in Perth, Western Australia.[12]
He is the author of Trading to Extinction, a 2014 book that documents the illegal animal trade in Asia. The book was also the subject of a video documentary produced by Vice Media.[13]
In 2019, he published No Place On Earth, which presents the experiences of survivors of the 2017 persecution of the Rohingya population in Myanmar.[14]
Awards
Brown's project on the illegal trade of endangered animals won a World Press Photo Award in 2004 and a multimedia award from Pictures of the Year International (POYi) in 2008.[11]
His book Trading to Extinction was listed among the ten best photo documentary books of 2014 by the American magazine Photo.[15][16]
In 2018, Brown was awarded a World Press Photo award in the category "General news, singles" for his documentation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.[4] The photograph showed the bodies of Rohingya refugees who drowned after the boat they were using to flee Myanmar capsized.[1] The work was commissioned by Panos Pictures for UNICEF.
References
- ^ a b "Rohingya Crisis". World Press Photo. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "Patrick Brown". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "World Press Photo Contest 2018 – the winning pictures". The Guardian. 13 April 2018. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ a b "Patrick Brown".
- ^ "Biographies". Life Force Magazine. Life Force Magazine. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ "Patrick Brown". The Straits Times. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "Patrick Brown's "Trading to Extinction" Project". 11 February 2014.
- ^ Photographie, L'Œil de la (4 March 2019). "Patrick Brown Wins the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo for "No Place On Earth"". The Eye of Photography Magazine. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ Smyth, Diane. "Q&A: Patrick Brown, World Press Photo of the Year nominee - 1854 Photography". www.1854.photography. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ "Patrick Brown (1) | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Patrick Brown (1) | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ "Patrick Brown". Panos Pictures. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade. YouTube.
- ^ Coomes, Phil (11 February 2014). "Trading to extinction". BBC News.
- ^ "Portfolio: Patrick Brown's "Trading to Extinction" | American Photo". Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Trading to Extinction - Patrick Brown". wildlifethailand.com. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2024.