Speakers: Brian David Price
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
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Artist talks at Photoville Festival 2023 were made possible in partnership with PhotoWings and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Artist talk with photographer Brian Branch-Price.
Our 2023 Photoville Education Day included field trips to our Photo Village in Brooklyn Bridge Park, engaging conversations with professional artists, and a series of lively youth artist panel talks known as the Youth Artist Exchange, all tailored to middle and high school students.
Brian David Price, a Plainfield, NJ, native son, began his career in photography at Plainfield High School; then as a freelancer for The Washington Post; staffing with The News Journal in Wilmington, DE; followed up with the Associated Press in Trenton, NJ.
He is a photojournalist focusing on reportage, portraiture, and fine art in black and white photography and contracts with Zuma Press.
His assignments have taken him to Ghana, and around the U.S., and he was selected as a Department of Defense Embed for the Iraq War for the Associated Press. His assignments ranged from political campaigns, news such as 1/6, Fashion Week, Super Bowl, World Series, world cycling championships, and self-assignments.
Prior to his work at the AP, Brian worked as a staff photographer for several newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal and Constitution and The Detroit Free Press. He was the first National Association of Black Journalists photo intern selected by the late Michel Du Cille, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Howard University.
He enjoys cycling and is a member the Major Taylor Cycling Club of New Jersey, American Society of Media Photographers, National Press Photographers Association, The National Association of Black Journalists, and the Crazy Faith Riders of NJ.
Brian’s heroes are his late parents, his sons, and photographers: Sharon Farmer, Roland Freeman, Moneta Sleet, Jr., Gordon Parks, and hometown photographers Irvin Penn and Margaret Bourke White.
The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment’s mission is to support and strengthen New York City’s creative economy and make it accessible to all. In 2019, the creative industries accounted for more than 500,000 local jobs and have an economic impact of $150 billion annually. MOME comprises five divisions: the Film Office, which coordinates on location production throughout the five boroughs; NYC Media, the city’s official broadcast network and production group; the Office of Nightlife, which supports the city’s nighttime economy; the Press Credentials Office, which issues press cards; and Programs and Initiatives to advance industry and workforce development across NYC’s creative sectors.
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
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