Michael Christopher Brown

               

Biography

Michael Christopher Brown was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington State. Often using a camera phone as a primary recording device, his current work explores the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Sakhalin (2008), he captured the remote Russian island, while Broadway (2009) focused on New Yorkers amidst the financial crisis. He also put together a series of works from road and train trips throughout China (2009/2010) and, in 2011, documented the Libyan Revolution using a camera phone, exploring ethical distance and the iconography of warfare. He contributes in the National Geographic Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. His photographs were exhibited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Instituto Cervantes (New York), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Annenberg Space for Photography and the Brooklyn Museum. His forthcoming book, Libyan Sugar, will be published in 2014 by Twin Palms Publishers.

Photo:

I describe this photo from the background to the foreground because the most importantly things are in the foreground and I let that for the end.

-      In the foreground you can see some things. In the upper part you can see fuzzy clouds and, with difficulty you can see a mountain.

-      In front of that there are some trees.

-      In the central part, there is a green principal big tree. And with that there is a one black person.

-      In the middle of picture there is a dirt track where there is the most important piece of the picture, the black girl who has a boy in the back.

Quote:

This is an only quote that I found. I think this quote is for our time because the importantly thing today is the true mean of photography without the importance of the style of camera, etc.  

[The last slide is a video that you can’t see but I attached that to the sidebar of the blog.]