About
The Photo Brigade is a community formed by photographer Robert Caplin as a resource for freelancers to showcase their work to a larger audience of photographers and photo lovers through social media. The goal is to strengthen the freelance photographic community, to share the latest work of freelancers and students, and raise awareness for photographers who otherwise might not have the opportunity to share their work with a large community of like-minded people.
Contributors
- Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, Mylan Cannon is currently a student at Ohio University studying french language and visual communication. He has served as the director and co-founder of a student-run magazine called The Essay where he has led the production of several video stories. Mylan has also worked as a video intern in the White House Photo Office and is currently interning at The New York Times for the summer where is producing video and photo content. He is available for video and photography assignments throughout the year.
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- Robert Caplin is a full-time freelance editorial, corporate, and portrait photographer based in New York City. He’s a regular contributor to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and his work has been published in National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Vanity Fair, among others.
Robert is a graduate from Ohio University’s renowned School of Visual Communication. He lives in Manhattan and is available for assignments of any genre. - Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Posts
- Rafael Agustin Delgado is a Los Angeles based freelancer born and raised in Pasadena, California. For the past several years he’s worked many large events in Southern California for Reuters, including the World Series, NBA Finals, the Rose Bowl, and BCS Championships. His other clients include USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and Getty Images. When not shooting he can be found below the water line scuba diving SoCal as a dive master and is also a chamber crew volunteer at the USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber.
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- A native of Santa Barbara, California, Noah has has lived in New York City for over a decade documenting it’s ominous beauty and diversity.
Noah is a freelance photographer specializing in architectural, event, and fine art photography. Some of his noted clients include; the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Victoria’s Secret, Bath and Body Works and Kushner Studios.
In 2010, his works were showcased at the Clio Awards and he was listed in the “Winners Book” of this premier annual awards show honoring creative advertising in print, radio and television.
Noah studied under the late Susan Kleckner at the International Center of Photography. He was also privileged to have worked with Pulitzer prize winning photographer Vincent Laforet, and noted NY Times photographer Robert Caplin. Noah presently resides in Brooklyn and continues to create images that captivate, surprise, and move people emotionally.
He is currently available for personal and commercial assignments. - Website | Twitter | Posts
- Nick serves as the Communications Director and spiritual adviser for Once Magazine, a long-form photo story publication on the iPad. Based in San Francisco, Nick can be seen surfing the waves at Ocean Beach when he is not conducting a symphony of blogs and writing himself. Before Once, Nick worked at the press office for the Colorado State Legislature.
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- Mike Isler is a Florida native who’s been living in NYC for five years. His photography background is in adventure sports photography, and currently provides consulting services on photo and video productions. Aviation has been a passion of his from an early age, and led him to start pilot training at the age of 15. He is a fixed-wing pilot, and also an aerial coordinator and technician for helicopter-based photo and video projects. Technology is central to Mike’s skillset, and he brings the latest techniques and a fun spirit to his productions. He’s played an integral role on projects for National Geographic, Goldman Sachs, Cosmopolitan, Accenture, Wired, Condé Nast, the band Evanescence, and many others.
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- Charles Ludeke is a New York-based freelance photographer whose work focuses on storytelling and relationships.
He got his bachelor’s degree in photojournalism at the University of Missouri. There, the essential tenets of his education were honest emotion and intimacy. He tries to build a relationship with the people he photographs. He loves getting to know new folks and learning about them. - Website | Blog | Twitter | Posts
- Sol Neelman (b. 1970) is a failed athlete turned sports photographer living in his home city of Portland, Oregon, USA. In 2007, he left his staff job at The Oregonian to pursue a life-long project documenting sports culture around the globe. In July, 2011, Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany published his first book, “Weird Sports.”
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- Since the age of 5, when he asked a stunned Santa for a set of stage spotlights and dry ice, Guy Rhodes has had his sights set on the behind-the-scenes craftwork of the visual arts industry. Whether it’s photography, lighting design, video production, or the artful synergy of all three talents, Guy’s attention to detail and true passion for his crafts drive each of the projects he undertakes, no matter how large or small.
Employed as a contract photojournalist for The Post-Tribune, part of Chicago’s Sun Times News Group, since 2004, Guy’s highlights include covering the 2008 U.S. presidential election, as well as flying with aerobatic teams during coverage of the annual Gary South Shore Air Show.
Guy earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater/Lighting Design at Columbia College in Chicago, and splits his lighting disciplines between shows for live audiences and lighting for the camera. As director of photography, Guy has completed numerous independent short and feature films, as well as music videos and industrials. - Website | Blog | Twitter | Posts
- Rob Weber is a professional photographer based in New York. Rob has traveled to sixteen different countries on five different continents and picked up a camera to document these travels. What started as a way to interpret and document other countries and cultures has become a passion and a lifestyle.
When Rob doesn’t have a camera to his face, he is playing soccer, rock climbing, or skiing. He also volunteers with the RIT Ambulance Corps. - Website | Blog | Twitter | Posts
- Jay Westcott is a recovering newspaper photographer and currently works as a staff photographer for Politico, covering campaigns, Capitol Hill and the White House. Previously, Jay freelanced for 3 years in Washington, DC for a variety of magazines and news outlets including USA Today, The New York Times, The Guardian (UK), The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, Washingtonian Magazine, Outdoor Life and many others. When he’s not shooting Jay can be found riding and racing his bicycle or hiking with his daughter, Lauren.
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- “The Art Of” columnist, Jared Wickerham, is a freelance sports photographer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania covering high school, college, and professional sporting events such as the US Open, NHL Winter Classic, AFC Championship Game, and the World Series.
His freelance clients include Getty Images, The New York Times, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Hockey News, and his corporate clients include DirecTV, The Pittsburgh Pirates, Coca-Cola, Macy’s, and The University of Pittsburgh. - Website | Blog | Twitter | Posts
- Warren Winter, aka The Pixel Pimp, is a photojournalism industry veteran with 25 years experience. He’s been a Director, Managing Director, Editor, and Consultant, to many major photo agencies including his own agency, PSG, as well as other famous agencies including Polaris, WpN, ZUMA, Sipa, and WireImage. The photographers and newspapers he’s represented have seen their work on covers including Time, Newsweek, People, US Weekly, Paris Match, Stern, and Der Spiegel (to name a few), and been featured in every major publication in the world. Prior to this Warren was a freelance photographer represented by Sygma (pre-Corbis) and Picture Group (The original one not the paparazzi joint using that name today).
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