Patrick Brown (photographer)

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Patrick Brown
Born (1969-01-23) January 23, 1969 (age 56)
Sheffield, England, UK
Occupation Photojournalist
Spouse
Camilla Wøldike
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(m. 2012)​
Website patrickbrownphoto.com
www.instagram.com/patrickbrownphoto

Patrick Brown (born January 23, 1969) is an Australian photojournalist and photographer. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Brown was the recipient of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award and has received two World Press Photo Award awards. His work 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 held in private collections.[ citation needed ]

He has contributed to Rolling Stone , The New Yorker , TIME, Newsweek , Vanity Fair, National Geographic , and Mother Jones, and has worked with UNICEF, UNHCR, Fortify Rights, and Human Rights Watch. [8]

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.

He is the author of Trading to Extinction, a 2014 book documenting the illegal animal trade in Asia. The book is also the subject of a video documentary by Vice Media. [9]

In 2019, he published No Place On Earth, a portrayal of survivors of the persecution of the Myanmar Rohingya population in 2017. [10]

Awards

Brown's project on the illegal trade of endangered animals won a World Press Photo Award in 2004 and a multimedia award from POYi in 2008. [11]

His book Trading to Extinction was nominated as one of the ten best photo documentary books of 2014 by the American magazine Photo. [12] [13]

Brown was awarded a World Press Photo award in the category "General news, singles" in 2018 for his work documenting the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. [4] The photograph showed the bodies of Rohingya refugees laid out after the boat in which they were attempting to flee Myanmar capsized. [1] The work was commissioned by Panos Pictures for UNICEF.

References

  1. 1 2 "Rohingya Crisis". World Press Photo. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Patrick Brown". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "World Press Photo Contest 2018 – the winning pictures". The Guardian. 13 April 2018. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Patrick Brown".
  5. ↑ "Biographies". Life Force Magazine. Life Force Magazine. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Patrick Brown". The Straits Times. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Patrick Brown's "Trading to Extinction" Project". 11 February 2014.
  8. ↑ "Patrick Brown (1) | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  9. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade. YouTube .
  10. ↑ Coomes, Phil (11 February 2014). "Trading to extinction". BBC News.
  11. ↑ "Patrick Brown (1) | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  12. ↑ "Portfolio: Patrick Brown's "Trading to Extinction" | American Photo". Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "Trading to Extinction - Patrick Brown". wildlifethailand.com. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
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