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Patrick Brown has devoted himself to documenting critical issues around the world often ignored by the mainstream media. His ground-breaking project on the illegal trade in endangered animals won a World Press Photo Award in 2004 and a multimedia award from POYi in 2008. Continuing to work on the subject, his book, Trading to Extinction, was nominated in the 10 best photo documentary books of 2014 by AmericanPhoto. In 2019, he published No Place on Earth. It provides an intimate portrait of the survivors of the recent persecution of the Rohingya in 2017.
Brown received an Emmy Award for his work on the Alex Gibney HBO film The Forever Prisoner which won Outstanding Investigative Documentary. He is also the recipient of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award and two World Press Photo Award (2018, 2004), 3P Photographer Award, Days Japan Award, Picture Of The Year Award, and NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Award for his work.
His images have been exhibited internationally at Centre of Photography in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, Visa pour l’Image in France, as well as being held in private collections.
Patrick Brown has been represented by the prestigious photo agency Panos since 2002. Numerous publications regularly feature his work, including Rolling Stone Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Mother Jones, Stern Magazine, Der Spiegel Magazine, Marie Claire, The New York Times, Aperture, GEO Germany, along with originations such as UNICEF, UNHCR, Fortify Rights, and Human Rights Watch.
