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About:
M. Scott Brauer is a photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in1982, Landstuhl, Germany, to American parents. He grew up in various locations in the US, but calls Montana.
Brauer graduated with honors from the University of Washington with dual degrees in philosophy and Russian literature and language in 2005.
He interned at Black Star and VII New York in 2005 and for daily newspapers in 2006 and 2007: the Northwest Herald in suburban Chicago, and the Flint Journal in Flint, Michigan. Brauer moved to China in 2007, and returned to the US in 2010. He continues to make periodic trips to Russia, elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and China.
Brauer has been a writer for World Press Photo Witness and the defunct Raw View magazine. He was co-founder, writer, and editor of the now-archived photojournalism blog dvafoto (2006-2016).
He has served as the Secretary of the Boston Press Photographers Association, the oldest press and television photographers association in the United States, from 2015 to 2023.
Clients and Publications include:
Editorial:
- TIME
- Esquire
- The New York Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Bloomberg Businessweek
- Bloomberg Markets
- Bloomberg News
- Bloomberg Green
- Bloomberg Special Reports
- New York Magazine
- The New Yorker
- Fader
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Guardian
- Mother Jones
- The New Republic
- Stern
- Der Spiegel
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Education Week
- The Atlantic
- The Observer
- MIT Technology Review
- NPR
- MSNBC
- NBC News
- Le Point
- Le Monde
- M le magazine du Monde
- ProPublica
- Smithsonian
- Dagbladet Information
- Spectrum News
- Wired
- De Tijd
- Bilanz Magazine
- The Verge / Vox Media
- New Scientist
- Nomad Magazine
- Philosophie Magazin
- Harvard Business Manager Magazin
- ARTE Magazin
- Manager Magazin
- Topic
Institutional and Corporate:
- MIT News
- MIT Resource Development
- MIT Spectrum
- Harvard Kennedy School
- The Broad Institute
- Tufts University
- Colgate University
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Foundation Medicine
- Bosch
- Lufthansa
- Amity Foundation
- The Asia Society
- Montana Office of Tourism
- The Simons Foundation
- Edutopia
- Baillie Gifford
- The Dürr Group
Awards and Recognition include:
- American Photography 38 – Selected 2022
- American Photography 37 – Selected (2) 2021
- New York Times Business Photos of the Year 2020
- American Photography 36 – Selected 2020
- TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2020
- TIME’s Top Photojournalism of 2020
- American Photography 35 – Selected 2019
- American Photography 34 – Chosen 2018
- New York Times Arts Pictures of the Year 2017
- American Photography 33 – Selected (3) 2017
- American Photography 32 – Selected 2016
- Time’s 100 Best Photographs of 2015 (2)
- Boston Press Photographers Association – 1st place Portraits, Honorable Mention Animals 2015
- American Photography 30 – Chosen 2014
- New York Times Lens Blog Portfolio Review 2014
- Boston Press Photographers Association – Pictorial, Honorable Mention 2014
- Feztiv Art Shanghai – Grand Prix 2010
- PDN30 – Nominated 2011
- The Visual Culture Awards – Awards of Excellence (2) 2010
- The Visual Culture Awards – Honorable Mention 2009
- Atlanta Photojournalism Contest – Sports Action 2009
- The Visual Culture Awards – Portrait Award of Excellence, Founder’s Honours 2008
Selected Exhibitions:
- Newswomen’s Club of New York Spring Auction — 2019
- Lenscratch: The Ides of March online exhibition — 2019
- “The Politics of Images” — Intl Festival of Photography — Ipatinga, Brazil — 2018
- “This is the worst party I’ve ever been to.” — Intl Festival of Photography — Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2017
- HANT Magazine 10th Anniversary exhibition — Germany — 2017
- Good Planet TERRA Exhibition — Paris, France — 2017
- “This is the worst party I’ve ever been to.” — Feztival Vizualizator — exhibition, lecture — 2016
- “Winning the White House” — MANA Contemporary/International Center for Photography — group exhibition — 2016
- “Winning the White House” — Southampton Arts Center/International Center for Photography — group exhibition — 2016
- Flash Forward — Toronto, Canada — group exhibition — 2016
- “This is the worst party I’ve ever been to.” — Sofia, Bulgaria — exhibition, lecture, workshop — 2016
- “This is the worst party I’ve ever been to.” — Organ Vida Festival — exhibition and lecture — 2016
- “This is the worst party I’ve ever been to.” — Kaunas Photo Festival — exhibition and lecture — 2016
- “This is the worst party I’ve ever been to.” — LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism — exhibition and lecture — 2016
- NW Photojournalism — slideshow and lecture — 2015
- Eastreet3 — exhibition and book — Poland — 2015
- Feature Shoot: Zoos — award and exhibition — 2014
- Flash Forward Festival — Boston — slideshow and lecture — 2014
- Whitney Center for the Arts — Pittsfield, Massachusetts — 2014
- Fiesta de la Fotografía de BlankPaper — FotoAplauso — Projection — 2013
- “My Own Wilderness” exhibition by PHOTO/arts Magazine — 2011
- Ballarat International Foto Bienalle — 2011
- Re:Mapping the Flâneur — UK — 2011
- Slideluck Potshow XVI — New York Photo Festival — 2011
- Youth Image Project Benefit Exhibition — Whitefish, Montana — 2011
- Collectives Encounter — Mapping the Flâneur — Format International
- Photo Festival — 2011
- 52Selects.com — 2011
- Giving Trees — Magnum Foundation at 25CPW — 2010
- Scene on the Street — Vermont Photo Space — 2010
- Feztiv Art — Shanghai — 2010
- Visual Culture Awards — Charleston Center for Photography — 2010
- iGavel Emerging Artists Auction — NYC — 2010
- Positive Exposure — Washington DC — 2009
- The Gjon—Mili Award Exhibition — Prishtina, Kosovo — 2006
- The Ian Parry Scholarship Award Exhibition — London, England — 2005