Patrick has devoted himself to documenting critical issues around the world often ignored by the mainstream media. His groundbreaking 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” provides an intimate portrait of the survivors of the recent persecution of the Rohingya in 2017.
Patrick received an Emmy® Award for his work on the Alex Gibney HBO film The Forever Prisoner which won Outstanding Investigative Documentary. Patrick is also the recipient of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award and 2 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 work has been exhibited internationally at Centre of Photography in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, Visa pour l’Image in France and is also held in private collections.
Patrick 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, plus such originations as UNICEF, UNHCR, Fortify Rights and Human Rights Watch.
Ben Smith from A Small Voice podcast conducted an interview with Patrick. Click here
Vice Magazine Documentary about Patrick’s work on Trading to Extinction. Click here
Patrick Brown’s IMDb film credits. Click here
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AWARDS
2022 Emmy® Awards Camera Operator
2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo Award
2019 ASME-Ellie Awards 2019 Finalist Rolling Stone Magazine best feature story
2019 Prix Pictet Global Award nominated
2018 World Press Photo Award: First Prize, General News Singles
2018 World Press Photo, Picture of the Year nominee
2016 Prix Pictet Global Award nominated
2015 Prix Pictet Global Award nominated
2014 American Photo Best Documentary book of 2014
2009 New York Photographic Book Awards, USA
2008 NPPA’s Best Photojournalism Award, Multimedia. USA
2008 Picture of the Year International, Multimedia project (USA)
2005 Picture of the Year International (USA)
2005 3p Foundation Award (French)
2005 Days Japan Award: Jury Award (Japan)
2005 World Press Photo Award: Second Prize, Category “Nature”
1994 Kodak Australia Award, City of Perth (Australia)
BOOKS
2019 No Place On Earth by Patrick Brown, FotoEvidence World Press Book Award
2019 Photographers Against Wildlife Crime (2nd edition)
2017 Photographers Against Wildlife Crime
2014 Trading to Extinction by Patrick Brown, Dewi Lewis London, UK
2010 Reportage: A Retrospective 1999–2009, Momento, Sydney Australia
2010 Mercy, Mado-sha by James Whitlow Delano, Tokyo Japan
2009 This Day of Change, Koga Yoshiaki, Courrier Japan, Tokyo
2007 Noorderlicth: Act of Faith, Exhibition Catalogue, Stichting Aurora Borealis, NL
2007 Photojournalism- the Professionals’ Approach by Kobré Ken, Focal Press USA.
2006 The World’s Top Photographers – Photojournalists by Andy Steele, RotoVision, East Sussex UK
2006 International Center of Photography: Ecotopia Exhibition Catalogue. London, Steidl
2005 Black Market – Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia by Ben Davies, Mandala Publishing, San Rafael, US
EXHIBITIONS
2019 No Place On Earth, International Month of Photojournalism Festival, Padua, Italy
2019 No Place On Earth, Bronx Documentary Center, New York, USA
2019 Trading to Extinction, Fait et Cause gallery in Paris, France
2019 Exodus, La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2018 Exodus, River City Photography Gallery, Bangkok Thailand.
2016 The Farmer Becomes the Criminal, HRW, Myanmar Deitta Gallery, Yangoon
2015 HOPE, Jam Factory, Bangkok Thailand
2015 Trading to Extinction, Soya Sauce Factory, Bangkok Thailand
2014 21 Years PCP, Perth Center for Photography, Perth Australia
2014 Trading to Extinction, Panos AGM – London
2014 Trading to Extinction, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia
2014 Trading to Extinction, Obscura Festival, Malaysia
2013 Trading to Extinction, iThink Campaign, Bangkok Thailand
2011 Bengal’s Burden, Foreign Correspondents Club Thailand
2010 ANGELS SUICIDE, Athens Photo Festival, Athens Greece
2009 A Day of Change, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Japan
2009 WILDLIFE. INC, Bangkok Art & Culture Center, Bangkok Thailand
2009 A Terra: Economia, Conflito E Natureza, Reve!a, Spain
2009 Current, Ldymar Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Place and Manners of Worship, The Museum of Byzantine, Macedonia Greece
2007 Current, F-Stop Gallery Bangkok, Thailand
2007 Act of Faith, Noorderlicth, The Netherlands
2006 Ecotopia, International Center of Photography, NY USA
2006 Black Market, Chroniques Nomades, Trouville France
2006 Black Market, fotofreo photo-festival, Fremantle Australia
2005 Trading to Extinction, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2005 Black Market, World Press Photo, 77 exhibitions worldwide
2001 Border Life, The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 Hong Kong Handover, PICA, Perth, Australia
1998 Five, The Photography Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australia
1997 Flow, The Photography Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australia
1997 True Blue, Fremantle, Australia
1997 Life Theatre, Royal Perth Hospital Australia
1997 Life Theatre, The Moores Building, Fremantle Australia
1996 Current Flow, Perth, Australia
1996 The People of Malawi, Margaret River, Australia
1994 Zikomo, The Photography Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australia
1994 Tendency, Perth, Australia
ACADEMIC & VISITING ARTIST
2023 Emmy® Awards Judge - Documentary category
2023 Australian’s Top Emerging Photographers Judge
2022 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2022 TAFE Collage, speaker, Perth Australia
2022 Camera Electronic, speaker, Perth Australia
2022 Australian’s Top Emerging Photographers Judge
2021 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2021 Australian’s Top Emerging Photographers Judge
2020 Australian’s Top Emerging Photographers Judge
2019 UNICEF Head office, New York Lecture
2019 Bronx Documentary Centre New York Lecture
2019 About the Story Photographic Festival, Washington DC Lecture
2019 International Month of Photojournalism Festival, Padua, Italy Lecture
2019 Pulitzer Centre Washington DC Lecture
2019 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2019 World Press Photo Award, Amsterdam Lecture and pannel
2018 World Press Photo Award, Singapore Lecture
2018 The Ethical Image, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lecture and pannel
2018 Danish School of Media and Journalism, Copenhagen Denmark Lecture
2018 River City Gallery, Bangkok Thailand Lecture
2018 Camera EletronicShoot Workshops, Perth Australia Lecture
2018 World Press Photo Award, Amsterdam Lecture
2016 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2016 Counter Foto, Dhaka Bangladesh Lecture
2016 Danish School of Media and Journalism, Århus Denmark Lecture
2016 EAPRO’s Communication, Kathmandu Nepal Lecture and pannel
2015 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2015 Silpakorn University, Bangkok Thailand Lecture
2014 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2014 Silpakorn University, Bangkok Thailand Lecture
2013 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2013 The International Photographer’s and Writer’s Workshop, Thailand Lecture
2012 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2011 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2011 Stream Photo Asia Workshop, Thailand Lecture and pannel
2011 Danish School of Media and Journalism, Århus Denmark Lecture
2010 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2009 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2008 World Press Photo nominating committee Joop Swart Masterclass Judge
2008 Nominating committee for the UNICEF photo of the year award Judge
2005 Black Market, The Angkor Photography Festival, Cambodia Lecture
2005 Trading to Extinction World Press Photo Amsterdam Lecture