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

Talya Arbisser
Talya Arbisser is a Houston based freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer. For more than ten years, she has focused on photojournalism, specializing in sports photography. Recently Arbisser has been concentrating her camera on children with special needs, with a particular interest in blindness.Arbisser holds a BA from Cornell University in sociology with a concentration in Visual Studies. In June of 2009 she graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York City with a certificate in photojournalism and documentary photography. Arbisser has been published in a variety of media and her work has been presented in two solo and several group gallery exhibits. She is available for assignments of any genre and is able to travel upon request. Arbisser especially enjoys working with children and works as a tutor on the side.
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Christina Baird

Christina Baird
Christina Baird is a freelance designer for web and print. She has a masters degree focused on interactive multimedia and a bachelors degree in photojournalism both from Ohio University. She loves to communicate with others, and saw photojournalism as a fantastic excuse to chat with strangers. Although she recently traded in her Nikon for a sketch book and some HTML she still loves the thrill of capturing a moment.
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David Bergman

David Bergman
New York based editorial and commercial photographer David Bergman is best known for his tour photography, portraiture, and sports imagery. A former Miami Herald staff photographer, he is now Bon Jovi’s tour photographer and has worked with celebrity clients including Drew Carey, Avril Lavigne, Gloria Estefan, and Joss Stone. Sports Illustrated is a regular client and he has 12 covers to his credit including the 2010 Super Bowl. His panoramic Gigapan image of President Obama’s inauguration was viewed online over 15 million times, and he has made similar images at the World Series, Super Bowl, and Final Four. Bergman has produced still and video projects for companies including FremantleMedia, Embassy Row, EMI, and SONY Music and has been published in Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, People, Entertainment Weekly, Blender, USA Today, and The New York Times.
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Mylan Cannon
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

Robert Caplin
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.
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Matt Cashore

Matt Cashore
Matt Cashore is based in South Bend, Indiana. He spent the early part of his career in the news business, working as both a still and TV news shooter. These days you can most often find him at Notre Dame sports events, but he is also active in the region working with clients such as custom furniture makers, architects and of course higher ed. When not behind a camera you will find Matt in the air. He is a commercial-licensed pilot with 1500 hours.
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Jennifer Cecil

Jennifer Cecil
Jennifer Cecil is a freelance photographer and multimedia developer in Indianapolis, Ind. She attended Ohio University, School of Visual Communication, and has recently interned at The Palm Beach Post and The Indianapolis Star. She enjoys love, the First Amendment, hugging trees, the color orange, and you.
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Tiffany Clark

Tiffany Clark
Tiffany L. Clark is a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer based in New York City and the Twin Cities in Minnesota. Since completing the one-year Documentary and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York, Tiffany has worked for and assisted photographers of VII Photo Agency, New York Times and LA Times. Tiffany shoots for amNY/Newsday and the New York Times newspapers and contributes to Demotix.com and other publications in Minnesota. Tiffany is an associate photographer for Jennifer Loomis Photography shooting alternative maternity photography. Tiffany is a part of the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop family- being a student at the first workshop held in Mexico City in 2007 and since has been the Tech Guru and social media person for the workshops which have allowed her many great opportunities to travel overseas which she loves. Along with shooting, she also does part time photo editing and private tutoring in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Tiffany lives in Manhattan and is available for assignments of any genre.
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Rafael Agustin Del

Rafael Agustin Delgado
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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Noah Devereaux

Noah Devereaux
Noah Devereaux is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University and upon graduation shot for a chain of community weekly newspapers in Northern Virginia before moving up to New York City. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Edible Brooklyn and the Time Out New York. In addition, his personal work has been featured on blogs such as Conscientious, New Landscape Photography and The Photoletariat.
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Julie M. Elman

Julie M. Elman
Julie M. Elman has worked as a photojournalist, picture editor and designer at a handful of newspapers in the U.S. Currently, she teaches design and picture editing at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Got a fear you’d like her to know about (and possibly turn into a drawing for The Fear Project)? You can send it to her at joodlesbyjulie@gmail.com.
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Noah Gilbert

Noah Gilbert
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.
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Melissa Golden

Melissa Golden
Melissa Golden lives in the DC metro area, but she isn’t really from anywhere in particular. Her nomadic childhood, courtesy of the United States military, has led to a life marked by continuous change, renewal and wanderlust. Her work is influenced by all the places she’s called home at some point- the brazen oddity and beauty of Southern California, the tradition of the Deep South, the storm light of rural Florida, the heady intrigue of the Middle East and the stiff formality of the District of Columbia. She may not know where she’s going next, but her pictures help her to keep track of where she’s been.
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Nick Hiebert

Nick Hiebert
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

Mike Isler
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, CondĂ© Nast, the band Evanescence, and many others.
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Jonathan Jacobs

Jonathan Jacobs
When he isn’t surfing the web in an attempt to find the next great viral video or meme, Jonathan Jacobs is the head of marketing for Digital Natives Group, a digital agency based in Armonk, NY. The Natives exist to help brands and businesses immigrate to the brave new digital world. When not sitting behind a glowing screen, Jonathan can usually be found gallivanting around the nearest park with a camera strapped around his neck or a book clutched tightly in his hand.
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Peter Larson

Peter Larson
Peter Larson is a fine art and portrait photographer based in Cleveland, OH who focuses on music, fashion and travel. Peter graduated from Ohio University in 2010 and is working on his first solo exhibition coming this July. He was also the first intern for Robert Caplin, founder of Photo Brigade, in 2009.
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Ryan Lasek

Ryan Lasek
Ryan Lasek is an award winning freelance sports photographer in Columbia, Maryland. He has covered major international events including the Breeders Cup at Churchill Downs, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France as well as the Triple Crown Races. He enjoys covering college football and lacrosse for various media outlets and sports companies. Ryan’s images can be found on Sports Illustrated, Horse Illustrated, Equine Journal, Equiery magazine, children’s books, and calendars.
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Chip Liderland

Chip Liderland
Chip Litherland is a self-diagnosed color addict. Pretty much sums it up. He is also an award-winning photographer based in Florida, with over a decade of experience working in photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and ESPN the Magazine, and his work has appeared in TIME, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, among others. His work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Southern Short Course, and the National Press Photographer’s Association. Since his departure form newspapers, he has been tackling the marketing, advertising, travel, and wedding world with the same passion as his editorial work. His newest venture is FOCUSED, a project challenging 200 photojournalists, including 30+ Pulitzer prize winners, around the globe to using only one click of the shutter on a single roll of film to create one compelling and lasting frame. Chip is married to his lovely wife, Elaine, and they have two beautiful daughters together. He is on a 12-step-program to break the cycle of addiction to random gratuitousness in his work, filling rectangles with extremely anal, over-saturated compositions, and consuming his weight in Chipotle burritos.
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Charles Ludeke

Charles Ludeke
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.
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Preston Mack

Preston Mack
Preston Mack is a professional photographer based in Orlando, Florida.
He is a graduate of the University of Miami’s School of Architecture. He shoots for advertising agencies such as Yellow Shoes Creative, The Meyocks Group, Mullen, GSD&M, Carol H Williams Agency, PUSH and Fry Hammond Barr. His corporate clients include Walt Disney World, Southwest Airlines, Pillsbury, GM, Kraft, Hy-Vee, Tupperware and Major League Baseball.
He shoots editorial assignments for magazines such as Reader’s Digest, The Sporting News, ESPN The Magazine and Forbes Magazine. His work has been recognized by the Best of Photojournalism, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Southern Short Course, and the National Press Photographer’s Association. Preston is a board member of the Central Florida ASMP.
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Brad Mangin

Brad Mangin
Brad Mangin is a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His regular clients include Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos. After graduating from San Jose State University he worked for several newspapers, including The National Sports Daily (where he was hired by Neil Leifer), before starting to freelance in 1993. Mangin has covered every World Series since 2000 for Major League Baseball, and regularly covers spring training in Arizona for Sports Illustrated. Mangin is a founding partner and managing editor of SportsShooter.com, an online community and resource for sports photographers and other working photojournalists. Mangin’s first book “Worth The Wait” was published in March of 2011. “Worth The Wait” is the official commemorative book of the San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series season featuring Mangin’s photographs from spring training through the final out of the World Series.
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Angus Mordant

Angus Mordant
Angus Mordant is in his final year of a Bachelor of Arts in Photography majoring in Documentary and Editorial Practice at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Upon the completion of his degree, Angus intends to undertake the Documentary/Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Angus’ work has appeared in many major publications across Australia and abroad.
When not behind the camera, Angus also enjoys SCUBA Diving and traveling, this love of travel has lead him to 34 countries on 6 continents. Angus is available for assignments in Sydney, Melbourne and further afield.
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Sol Neelman
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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Mikey Ortiz

Mikey Ortiz
Mikey Ortiz is a freelance videographer currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. He has spent the past couple years as a touring videographer for artists on tours headlined by Justin Bieber, Thirty Seconds To Mars, and Neon Trees. Recently he has been creating online promotional videos for artists like Train and Big Time Rush. His work has been featured on MTV.com and has accumulated well over 5 million YouTube views. He is looking to eventually create documentary-style reality shows and is available for any type of video work; especially work within the music industry.
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Marc Piscotty

Marc Piscotty
Marc Piscotty is a commercial and editorial photographer based in Denver, Co. specializing in food, portraits, sports and assignment based work. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer with a rich background in newspaper and documentary photography. He has covered everything from major sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympics to major news events such as Columbine and the Democratic National Convention. He also continues to work on an ever-growing collection of stock photography and is available for assignments and commissions worldwide.
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Jamey Price

Jamey Price
Jamey Price is a Charlotte NC based sports photojournalist covering professional motor racing and horse racing. His list of freelance clients include LAT Photographic, Getty Images, Eclipse Sportswire and his work has been published around the globe in publications such as F1 Racing, Autosport, The Racing Post, Sports Illustrated, ESPN.com and many others. Jamey is a contract photographer for Queens University in Charlotte NC and is a staff photographer with QC Exclusive magazine in Charlotte.
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Guy Rhodes

Guy Rhodes
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.
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Ingrid Spangler

Ingrid Spangler
Ingrid Spangler is a freelance social media consultant living in New York. She’s been snapping pictures since she was a child and involved with social media since before it was called social media. Before going out on her own, she handled the social media for AdoramaPix, the photo lab division of Adorama Camera, for four years. You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, flickr, 500px, Google+ and Pinterest. Besides photography and art, Ingrid loves border terriers and bacon and hates talking about herself in the third person.
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Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Charlotte, NC with clients that range from national and local magazines to Fortune 500 Corporations to ad agencies to TV networks. A graduate of RIT, he has worked as a newspaper photojournalist, a war photographer, a fashion photographer, a sports photographer, a travel photographer, a food photographer, a still life photographer, a news and sports photo editor, a set builder and designer and a prop man. All of these vast and different experiences have help shaped him and the way he sees the world. When not shooting or editing or doing marketing or billing, he can be found playing with his 3 dogs or fly fishing on a mountain river.
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Rob Weber

Rob Weber
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.
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Jay Westcott

Jay Westcott
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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Jared Wickerham

Jared Wickerham
“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.
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Warren Winter

Warren Winter
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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