John Brown Photography
Art & Commercial Photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. While working as a hotel valet to make ends meet, Brown found a camera in the lost and found.
John Brown, a Nashville-based photographer whose specialties are portraiture and branding, recognized in childhood that he is a creative soul. In college, he studied art and music formally however, photography fell into his lap in a less traditional manner. From there, he was on his path. The photographer began refining his aesthetic, often described by his clients as clean, ethereal, and painterl
29/11/2020
One more for your eyes. ///
29/11/2020
Unnamed, but I love it. ///
28/11/2020
Some new work I’ve yet to name. This photo feels of optimism and hope to me. What does it say to you? ///
23/11/2020
Perambulation No̲. 3, November 2020. ///
23/11/2020
Perambulation No̲. 2, November 2020. ///
22/11/2020
Perambulation No̲. 1, November 2020. /// /// In camera photos from a moving car as I traveled around a closed up Chicago.
10/11/2020
06/10/2020
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05/10/2020
Today is the last day to register to vote. Also I feel hot in this photo. Thanks you’re the best pal ever.
05/10/2020
I feel like sharing today, because this year as been awful and it's nice to have good news for a change. I started out this year full of hope, incredibly busy with work, and progressing (even if slowly) in life. Today, besides living in the same house, driving the same truck, and having the same church community and friends, literally every other aspect of my life has changed.
The pandemic stripped me of productivity, and it forced me to be home isolated from everyone. When that happened I started to realize I wasn't well, and had not been well for 13 years. But being busy and productive had covered over all my issues.
I experienced a severe clinical depression for the first time in my life. You guys... I lost 10 pounds, and literally got to a place where I couldn't even function well enough to send an email. I would wake up, shower, eat a little, feel tired and lay on the couch and sleep all day, then go to bed, and repeat. I sobbed nearly everyday. I had no energy and felt completely hopeless that anything good would ever happen again. At some point I realized if I was ever going to survive this, I had to do something about it. So... (continued in comments)
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10/09/2020
I’ve written and erased and saved and rewritten and started over and stopped and come back and repeat... so much to say about this year. I’m sure all of you could tell me stories for hours about what all has affected or changed your life. I just want to say I love you, and I’m thankful to still be here. I’m not exactly sure what’s next for me, but I’m working on it. Happy Thursday. /// 📸:
26/08/2020
One week from today my precious, talented, and gifted friend is dropping a new single. This was from the last shoot I had this year pre-craziness. I’m so happy to share this today. Love you all. ✌🏼///
15/08/2020
This photo feels different today than when I took it. Miss you bro. ✌🏼 ///
10/08/2020
Weather Report - 8:30 ///
10/08/2020
Lucinda Williams - Blessed ///
10/08/2020
Fugees - The Score /// I always loved shooting the vinyl collection at , so that’s what I’ll be sharing today. Happy music Monday y’all.
07/08/2020
Happy Friday 😎 ///
07/08/2020
“You don't ever need help from nobody else. All you got to do now:
Express Yourself!” - Charles Wright ///
06/08/2020
Because it’s Thursday. ///
03/08/2020
Good morning, and happy Monday. ///
02/08/2020
Happy Sunday friends. I love you all. What’s been great about your weekend? Feel free to leave a comment. Cheers! ///
01/08/2020
Happy Saturday! I hope you all are well. Cheers. ///
31/07/2020
Happy Friday ✌🏼 ///
30/07/2020
7 years of knowing this dude. He’s a goodin’. ///
30/07/2020
“It’s all about the hand triangle John. The hand triangle is the key.” /// and I laughed till we were in tears making this fine art cover. Happy Thursday!
29/07/2020
Good morning everyone. I hope you all have an amazing and productive day. ✌🏼☀️☕️ /// .owa
28/07/2020
I love traveling. I can’t believe it’s been 5 years since I shot this in Chicago. It was a crazy irresponsible gamble trip if there ever was one. I feel like I’ve lost a bit of that edge the last few years to take risks. But man... being home so much the last few months is really making me want to bust out. Maybe the edge is coming back. I guess we’ll see. I still love this photo so much. /// .owa
27/07/2020
I feel like every year that goes by this photo means even more and more to me for so many reasons, because of the ever changing state of our world.. Looking forward to shooting again soon, but also to having more landmark moments on my timeline of life, like this photo was. Shout out to the beautiful and strong .owa ///
26/07/2020
Good morning. ☕️☀️ ///
/// John Brown
“I think it’s really irresponsible to take someone’s photo and not know who they are. To me that’s like a one night stand.” But make no mistake: In John’s lens, the subject precedes the portrait.
And like many artists, monotony preceded all of it. Rewind 2009: Hotel valet, server, bicycle hauler, car salesman, and OTR semi driver. 2009 – 2013 saw a lot of jobs. Jobs that turn into responsible careers for many, but for creative’s are hell, providing enough money to get by, and too many mindless work hours to question everything.
It’s a hell, and an 18-wheeler, he may not have left were it not for a local counselor named David. Listening to John’s heart, he said he heard the words of a social creative but saw a life of idle isolation, the passion of an artist with little to show in return. Fear, societal pressure, money – the usual culprits for would be artists. But David captured them with clarity, a photographer of feelings; bringing light and focus to blurry thoughts, and for John the next step forward.
It all sounds neat and tidy, a bit story-bookish or typical. But he’d be the first to tell you losing a friend to murder in August 2014, two friends to cancer, a cousin, a great aunt, his grandmother, and four other close friends and family members before 2015 was finished... is no fairy tale. The kind of stuff that put Nose Grows Some by Thom Yorke on constant repeat, the stuff that made even his Crosspoint counselor cry as John wiped his eyes. “There is no art without struggle,” he says. And you better believe that changes what you see through the lens of a camera.
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