Photography & Imaging
Brian Palmer |
Courses
Fall 2009: CHIPS
Biography
Brian Palmer is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker. Recently, he produced, Full Disclosure, a documentary based on his embeds in Iraq with U.S., Marines, for which he received grants from the Ford Foundation and the Applied Research Center. In 2009, he was made a Fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security and awarded an investigative journalism grant by the Nation Institute.Palmer is a contributor to the PBS program Now with David Brancaccio and has worked as a freelance field producer for MTV and the Tribeca Film Festival’s documentation unit.
He has written for Mother Jones, Newsday, Newsweek International, The Huffington Post, the Village Voice, the City Sun, the New York Times Magazine, US News & World Report, and others. His photographs have appeared in the New York Times, ColorLines, US News & World Report, Politiken (Copenhagen), and other publications. Sipa Press distributes his photographs domestically and internationally. He is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts' MFA Photography, Video, & Related Media Program.
From 2000 through 2002, he was an on-air correspondent for CNN. Palmer was a Staff Writer at Fortune from 1998 to 2000 and Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report for the two years prior to that. He began his career in journalism in 1988 as a fact-checker and freelancer at the Village Voice.
Palmer earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. In the mid-1980s, he studied Chinese language and history at Nanjing University in the People's Republic of China.
He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and likes to leave the borough occasionally.
