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Patrick Brown
Born (1969-01-23) January 23, 1969 (age 55)
Sheffield, England, UK
OccupationPhotojournalist
Spouse
Camilla Wøldike
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(m. 2012)​
Websitepatrickbrownphoto.com
www.instagram.com/patrickbrownphoto

Patrick Brown (born Jan 23, 1969) is an Australian photojournalist and photographer.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brown's project on the illegal trade in endangered animals won a World Press Photo Award in 2004 and a multimedia award from POYi in 2008.[citation needed] His book Trading to Extinction was nominated in the ten best photo documentary books of 2014 by AmericanPhoto.[citation needed] In 2019, he published No Place On Earth which provides an intimate portrait of the survivors of the persecution of the Myanmar's Rohingya population in 2017.[8]

Brown has been the recipient of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award and two World Press Photo Awards. His work has been exhibited internationally at 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.[citation needed]

Life and work

Brown was born in Sheffield, England, but spent his childhood in the Middle East and Africa before his family finally settled in Perth, Western Australia.

He is the author of the 2014 book, Trading to Extinction, which documents the illegal animal trade in Asia. The book was shortlisted by AmericanPhoto for as one of the 10 best documentary books of 2014.[9] The book is also the subject of a video documentary by Vice Media.[10]

Awards

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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. ^ Coomes, Phil (11 February 2014). "Trading to extinction". BBC News.
  9. ^ "Portfolio: Patrick Brown's "Trading to Extinction" | American Photo". Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  10. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade. YouTube.
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