I'll be in the UK, near London, for the last two weeks of 2013. The schedule's a bit up in the air, but I should have some assignment availability during that time.

International Business Times has just published a handful of my images from Bashkortostan to accompany Joseph Hammond's piece on region: In Russia's Oil-Rich Bashkortostan, Site Of The Upcoming BRICS Summit, Terror Threats Undercut Investment Efforts. The images were taken last December as part of the International Center For Journalists' first US-Russia Young Media Professionals Exchange, in which both Joseph and I took part. You can see a fuller edit of the pictures on this site or my archive.

I've decided to make a number of landscapes from Montana available as prints in advance of the holiday season. Take a look at the selection here. Get in touch if there are any pictures from anywhere on this site or my archive that you don't see but would like to purchase.

I photographed a number of US military veterans who now work at MIT for MIT's News Office. We wanted to highlight the degree to which military service runs throughout the school, from maintenance workers to police to professors to administrators. The images ran in a slideshow on the front page of mit.edu for the weekend before Veterans Day 2013. The piece also complemented a renaming ceremony at MIT. Lobby 10, part of the Infinite Corridor underneath the Institute's famous dome, was renamed Memorial Lobby in honor of military veterans.
 
You can see more pictures from the series in a portrait portfolio on this site.

I'll be in the windswept plains of central Montana for the next 10 days or so. Email and phone contact may be spotty. Get in touch if you need anything from the area: 917-512-3473.

I'll be participating in the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Sub-Working Group on Media meeting in St. Petersburg July 31 - August 3, after which I'll travel north to Petrozavodsk to continue work from last year in Russia. As part of this meeting, I received a US Speaker and Specialist Grant from the US Department of State. My contribution to the American delegation will be to discuss the US-Russia Young Media Professionals Exchange I went on last year. I wrote a little about the exchange and this upcoming meeting on my blog. I'll also be posting images on instagram during the trip: @msbrauer. Other members of the American delegation include: Elizabeth Ballantine, a director of the McClatchy Company; Joyce Barnathan, President of the International Center for Journalists; Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina; John Cochran, former ABC News chief Capitol Hill correspondent; Bill Gentile, independent journalist and documentary filmmaker teaching at American University in Washington, DC; Barbara Cochran, the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Journalism with the Missouri School of Journalism; and Gary Kebbel, former dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Editors: please get in touch if you have any needs from Russia over the next two weeks. Young journalists: the next exchange will be happening this fall and you can apply to go until August, 9, 2013. I highly recommend the exchange.