Bryan Thomas is a Brooklyn-based photographer and a recent recipient of the Aperture/Google Creator Labs Photo Fund. In 2019, his ongoing body of work, “Sunrise/Sunset,” was a finalist for The 2019 Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, featured in PDN Annual, awarded the Daylight Photo Award, and exhibited at The Aperture Foundation, The Griffin Museum of Photography, and the PhotoVogue and Photolux Festivals. Bryan’s self-published zine, “The Sea in the Darkness Calls,” is held in the libraries of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He is a contributor to many national publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, among others.
Contact
bryan@bryanthomasphoto.com
813.541.2916
Social
@bryanthomasphoto
Clients
60 Minutes (CBS), The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Backchannel (WIRED), Blurry + Hinge, Burt’s Bees, Buzzfeed News, Bright Magazine, CNN, The Downtown Alliance, Esquire (Russia), Frontline (PBS), Getty, The Guardian (UK), Facebook, HarperCollins, Harper’s, The Intercept, Los Angeles Times, The Marshall Project, M&C Saatchi, Newsweek, National Public Radio (NPR), The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York University School of Law, New York University School of Professional Studies, Photo District News (PDN), People’s TV, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Chronicle, Simon & Schuster, Society Magazine (France), Stat News, TIME, Topic, Traveller’s World, Two Dollar Radio, Two Penguins Productions, Voltus, The Wall Street Journal, The Wine Spectator, among many others
Education
MA in Photojournalism, Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication, 2013
BA in English, Dartmouth College, 2005
Awards & Honors
Aperture/Google Labs Photo Fund, 2021
American Photography 36 (Selected), 2020
American Photography 35 (Selected), 2019
Daylight Photo Award, 2019
The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture (Finalist), 2019
Photo District News (PDN) Photo Annual, 2019
Photolucida’s Critical Mass, 2019
American Photography 34 (Chosen), 2018
American Photography 33 (Selected), 2017
CENTER’s Curator’s Choice (3rd), 2017
Magenta Flash Forward, 2017
American Photography 32 (Chosen), 2016
American Photography 30 (Chosen), 2014
American Photography 29 (Chosen), 2013
National Press Photography Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism (Honorable Mention), 2011
Photo District News (PDN) Photo Annual, 2011
Group Exhibitions & Festivals
Snapshot: Climate at the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill - September-December 2023 Say Cheese! A New Family Portrait at Photolux Biennial International Festival of Photography, Lucca, Italy - May, 2022
Reframing History at PhotoVogue Festival, Milan, Italy - November 2021
A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention at The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada - November, 2021
Future Past at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - August, 2021
The Bronx Documentary Center’s Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis at Photoville, Brooklyn, NY - May, 2020
The 2019 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA - October, 2019
Aperture Summer Open: Delirious Cities at The Aperture Foundation, New York, NY - July, 2019
Month of Photography Los Angeles Photo Book Exhibition at Venice Arts, Los Angeles, CA - April, 2018
Royal Photography Society’s International Photography Exhibition 160 at Old Truman Brewery, London, United Kingdom - October, 2017
CENTER Award Winners’ Exhibition at The Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM - October, 2017
Fall Line Press 50 at Fall Line Press, Atlanta, GA - July 2017
Emerging Photographers Auction at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY - June, 2016
Rising Water: Photographs of Sandy at The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY - October, 2013
The Ian Parry Scholarship Exhibition at The Getty Images Gallery - August, 2010
Selected Public Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library, San Francisco, CA (books)
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art Library, Fort Worth, TX (books)
The Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX (books)
Press
Monck, Allie. “Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund,” Aperture, September 30, 2021
Sandoval, Rhombie. “Bryan Thomas,” Anywhere Blvd., August 10, 2020
Bright, Josh. “Story: The Sea in the Darkness Calls,” The Independent Photographer, April 10, 2020
Lamb, Bree. “Sunrise/Sunset,” Fraction Magazine, Issue 131, February, 1 2020
Conde, Adriana. “Entrevista A Bryan Thomas,” Joia Magazine, December 21, 2019
“Portfolio: Bryan Thomas’ Sunrise/Sunset,” GUP #63: Portraits of Life, November 1, 2019
Ferri, Graziano. “Bryan Thomas Takes Moving Portraits of People Wearing Memorial T-Shirts,” FotoRoom, September 18, 2019
Itkoff, Michael. “Daylight Photo Award: Sunrise/Sunset,” Daylight, July 17, 2019
Cerbarano, Rica. “Photography: Bryan Thomas,” Vogue Italy, June 20, 2019
Boddington, Ruby. “Bryan Thomas Documents South Floridians Memorializing Loved Ones Lost To Gun Violence On T-shirts,” It’s Nice That, April 15, 2019
Hirschman, Fred. “Bryan Thomas,” Ain’t-Bad, December 17, 2017
Soper, Forrest. “Book of the Week: The Sea in the Darkness Calls,” Photo-Eye, August 8, 2017
Smithson, Aline. “CENTER’s Curator’s Choice: Bryan Thomas,” Lenscratch, June 28, 2017
Staff. “The Sea in the Darkness Calls by Photographer Bryan Thomas,” booooooom.com, June 12, 2017
Kormann, Carolyn. “Premonitions of a Florida Ravaged by Climate Change,” The New Yorker, May 19, 2017
Ber, Sharon. “Promos We Kept: Say It In Newsprint,” Photo District News (PDN), March 1, 2017
Smithson, Aline. “Bryan Thomas: Neither There Nor Here,” Lenscratch, August 6, 2014
Estrin, James. “A Prosaic View of Hurricane Sandy,” The New York Times, October 28, 2013
Ritchin, Fred. “Superstorm Sandy, One Year Later: Self-Portraits by Communities in Distress,” TIME, October 24, 2013
Roegiers, Brett. “Oystermen Still Plagued by Gulf Oil Spill,” CNN, September 19, 2012