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Based in Brooklyn, NY
t: 813.541.2916
e: bryan@bryanthomasphoto.com


Based in Brooklyn, NY
e: bryan@bryanthomasphoto.com
t: 813.541.2916

Bryan Thomas is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY and a recent finalist for The 2019 Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. His most recent body of work, “Sunrise/Sunset,” was featured in 2019’s PDN Annual, awarded the Daylight Photo Award, and exhibited at The Aperture Foundation and The Griffin Museum of Photography. 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. Bryan graduated from Dartmouth College and worked at GQ Magazine before returning to graduate school and earning his Master of Arts at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, among other editorial publications.

Clients

The New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker’s Photo Booth, Bloomberg Businessweek, Topic, The Intercept, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, National Public Radio, PBS’s Frontline, Harper’s Magazine, Newsweek, WIRED’s Backchannel, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, BuzzFeed News, Stat News, Bright Magazine, HarperCollins, Two Penguins Productions, Blurry + Hinge, GQ/Dewars, Refinery 29/Burt’s Bees, NYU School of Professional Studies, NYU School of Law, Getty, Facebook, Downtown Alliance, M&C Saatchi, University of Rochester Medical Center

Awards

PDN Photo Annual, The Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture (Finalist), Daylight Photo Award, Magenta’s Flash Forward, CENTER’s Curator’s Choice, American Photography, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, RPS International Photography Exhibition, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, College Photographer of the Year, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Northern Short Course, Review Santa Fe, Eddie Adam’s Workshop

Exhibitions

The 2019 Arnold Newman Prize at The Griffin Museum of Photography
Aperture Summer Open: Delirious Cities at The Aperture Foundation
CENTER Award Winners Exhibition at The Marion Center for Photographic Arts
RPS International Photography Exhibition 160 at The Old Truman Brewery
Fall Line 50 at Fall Line Press
Emerging Photographers Auction at Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Rising Water: Photographs of Sandy at The Museum of the City of New York
Ian Parry Scholarship at the Getty Images Gallery

Features

Fraction Magazine: “Sunrise/Sunset” by Bryan Thomas
Joia Magazine: Interview with Bryan Thomas
FotoRoom: Moving Portraits of People Wearing Memorial T-Shirts
Daylight Photo Award: Sunrise/Sunset
Vogue Italy: Sunrise/Sunset
It’s Nice That: Memorials To Loved Ones Lost To Gun Violence
The New Yorker: Premonitions of a Florida Ravaged by Climate Change
Photo-Eye Bookstore: Book of the Week
Booooooom.com: The Sea in the Darkness Calls
Aint-Bad: Bryan Thomas, “The Sea in the Darkness Calls”
Photo District News: Promos We Kept: Say It In Newsprint
TIME: Superstorm Sandy, One Year Later: Self-Portraits by Communities in Distress
The New York Times: A Prosaic View of Hurricane Sandy
CNN: Oystermen Still Plagued By Gulf Oil Spill