M. Scott Brauer at a Vermin Supreme campaign event.
On the New Hampshire campaign trail with perpetual presidential candidate Vermin Supreme. 
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About:

M. Scott Brauer is a photographer based in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was born in 1982, Landstuhl, Germany, to American parents. He grew up in various locations in the US, but calls Montana home. 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 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: 

  • AARP Bulletin
  • ARTE Magazin
  • Bilanz Magazine
  • Bloomberg Businessweek
  • Bloomberg Green
  • Bloomberg Markets
  • Bloomberg News
  • Bloomberg Special Reports
  • Crosscut
  • Dagbladet Information
  • De Tijd
  • Der Spiegel
  • Education Next
  • Education Week
  • Esquire
  • Fader
  • Harvard Business Manager Magazin
  • Le Monde
  • Le Point
  • M le magazine du Monde
  • Manager Magazin
  • MIT Technology Review
  • Mother Jones
  • MSNBC
  • NBC News
  • New Scientist
  • New York Magazine
  • Nomad Magazine
  • NPR
  • Philosophie Magazin
  • ProPublica
  • Smithsonian
  • Spectrum News
  • STAT
  • Stern
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung
  • The Atlantic
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • The Guardian
  • The LA Times
  • The New Republic
  • The New York Times
  • The New Yorker
  • The Observer
  • The Verge / Vox Media
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • TIME
  • Topic
  • Wired

Institutional and Corporate:

  • Amity Foundation
  • Baillie Gifford
  • Bosch
  • Colgate University
  • Edutopia
  • Foundation Medicine
  • Harvard Kennedy School
  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • Lufthansa
  • MIT News
  • MIT Resource Development
  • MIT Spectrum
  • Montana Office of Tourism
  • The Asia Society
  • The Broad Institute
  • The Dürr Group
  • The Simons Foundation
  • Tufts University

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:

  • “Narva: On the Edge of Europe” — MadePro Conference — Lecture and exhibition in Pomorie and Sofia, Bulgaria — 2023
  • 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