Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith has been creating bold, graphic images of celebrities, athletes and titans of industry for magazines, annual reports, corporations and advertising for more than 25 years. Smith's photographs of famous and infamous faces of the noteworthy and notorious have graced the covers and pages of hundreds of magazines.
His first magazine photograph appeared in LIFE Magazine when Smith was a 20-year-old college student at the University of Missouri. Just five years later, Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He was again a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil. His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the Seoul Olympics won first place in both World Press Photo and the Pictures of the Year competition and he was twice named as one of American Photo magazine's "New Faces in Photography."
Featured on the cover of the Photo District News Portraiture Issue and the Communication Arts Photography Annual, Smith's work appears in Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Forbes, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Vanity Fair and Ocean Drive. His corporate clients include the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Kraft, Nabisco, TNT and NBC.
Smith appeared on Fine Living channel's "Me vs Me" teaching a Little League Mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer. He is frequently speaker at photography seminars and to photo students at colleges, universities and art institutes around the country. He is the President of Editorial Photographers, an organization of over 1,850 of the top magazine photographers and newspaper photojournalists from around the world.
His photography career began as a high school swimmer clearly not destined for the Olympics in the pool, yet this provided him with the opportunity to photograph swimming and other sports as a stringer for the Ames Daily Tribune.
Three million miles later on assignments to six continents, Smith can often be found in the bulkhead aisle seat on an American Airlines flight headed to the Caribbean, Latin America or the American South from his home in Miami Beach, Florida.
"I've got the greatest job in the world, the worst days in the life of a photographer might be the greatest day in the lives of many people."
-- Brian Smith
His first magazine photograph appeared in LIFE Magazine when Smith was a 20-year-old college student at the University of Missouri. Just five years later, Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He was again a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil. His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the Seoul Olympics won first place in both World Press Photo and the Pictures of the Year competition and he was twice named as one of American Photo magazine's "New Faces in Photography."
Featured on the cover of the Photo District News Portraiture Issue and the Communication Arts Photography Annual, Smith's work appears in Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Forbes, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Vanity Fair and Ocean Drive. His corporate clients include the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Kraft, Nabisco, TNT and NBC.
Smith appeared on Fine Living channel's "Me vs Me" teaching a Little League Mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer. He is frequently speaker at photography seminars and to photo students at colleges, universities and art institutes around the country. He is the President of Editorial Photographers, an organization of over 1,850 of the top magazine photographers and newspaper photojournalists from around the world.
His photography career began as a high school swimmer clearly not destined for the Olympics in the pool, yet this provided him with the opportunity to photograph swimming and other sports as a stringer for the Ames Daily Tribune.
Three million miles later on assignments to six continents, Smith can often be found in the bulkhead aisle seat on an American Airlines flight headed to the Caribbean, Latin America or the American South from his home in Miami Beach, Florida.
"I've got the greatest job in the world, the worst days in the life of a photographer might be the greatest day in the lives of many people."
-- Brian Smith
