Gallery and PARTY!

Over the years I have had many offers to show in various reputable galleries. This alone did not serve my interest as an artist. Urban Dog Coffee founder and owner, Brady, approached me that instead of a gallery commission for each sell, instead a chosen organization that is striving to better this world. THIS INTEREST ME AND I FOUND WORTH THE VENTURE.

So I'm finally having a fine art show. It features a lot of my personal work as well as commercial. I've always thought there is really a fine line between commercial art. I'M THROWING A SHOW EVENT-PARTY Saturday APRIL 10th, 2010! 2720 Oak Lawn ste A. Dallas! Bring all your friends and 3 strangers!

Recent Review: "Braun see's Dallas with an eye like no other photographer Ive met. A Dallas Native, Braun captures the cityscapes and scenery with depth and whimsey and seemingly without compromise to either. His work is really stunning, giving us a fresh way to view our city. His show benefits Sower Of Seeds Intl, an organization working to prevent sex trafficking."

This show goes to benefit Sower of Seeds International by giving 35% of all proceeds from each sale. Please take the time to learn more about this amazing organization.

"Because Art is so personal I wanted to give people options in how my prints could be purchased to match each buyer specifically. Bellow is my pricing for this show. I have decided to limited editions of each print because the value will only increase as investment as time passes. Thank you for being part of my journey as a photographer and artist. "
Each Print comes signed, numbered, and with a certificate of authenticity with the registered Limited Edition number for your records.

RSVP HERE!

I believe that the truly creative periods are those when you live with intensity

I don’t know what’s important to the people who look at my photos. What’s important to me is to make them. I work all the time, but there are only a few of my photos that I find really good. I am not even sure that I am really a good photographer. I think that anyone working as I do could do the same. But my purpose is not to prove my talent. I photograph almost every day, except when it’s too cold for traveling the way I do – as in this time of winter. Sometimes my photos are OK, other times they are not, but I think that eventually something will come out of my work. I don’t worry about it.

–Josef Koudelka

(Courtesy of A Photo Editor, one of my favorite blogs)

IPHONE APP: Brian Braun

It's Official! I'm now an IPhone App!! Or at least my Portfolio is.
(download it FREE from Itunes)

Why? (Some would say why not) Several Reason. Presence, communication, public relations, branding, and a lot of reasons but also it's fun. Mainly I wanted another avenue for my clients to keep up with me and see my newest work. There are great ways to keep in your client's mind, from postcards, email blasts to even sticky notes with your name on it. All are great. I believe in them all. Get out there and shine.

A great deal of my client's are in the advertising world. They Travel. What do you want to do while your plane is delayed? Play on your IPhone. If they are talking to their client or a colleague in the elevator or lobby, they want to show you off for a BIG JOB...Done. I'm not saying that this is the only place I want people to check out my work, but options to view my work are what I always want to provide for people.
(download it FREE from Itunes)

Functionality. Besides showing my work, there are some really cool things that the designer and I worked on for some time. (More than happy to share him to anybody that wants to contact me)
People can see my Blog, Twitter, Bio with website and Email right there on the app. The portfolio will automatically check for new images. (My new site will be out very soon as well!!)

The images can be viewed horizontally and vertically just by turning your IPhone, just like it does in the photos section of your Iphone. Also the App's photo can be scrolled through with the traditional finger flip through move, or you can use the arrows. ENJOY

(download it FREE from Itunes)



I'd love to hear your thoughts! Let me know!

Braun

A Hopeful New Year

2010. It's Here! Finally! We made it. 2009 Left us weary and tired. This year brings all levels of hopes and optimistic expectations. This year will be different. Of course this all from personal experiences which have carved this bright declaration.

Shot from a shoot for Bombardier Aerospace. I love this jet. Amazing Machine!
What have you created this year? What are your hopes? What will you push yourself to learn? For me, its master timelapse techniques and several software. Branding and rebranding myself once again. This effort is an ever and always evolving privilege. We must treat it as so.

What new tools will help you achieve your progression in creativity?
Let me know! I want to know!

Keep shooting

Braun

Drawing the War, Voices from Eastern Congo produced by Duckrabbit

Amazing images and stories. I love photography for the power it holds to describe is incalculable.

Drawing the War from duckrabbit on Vimeo.

(Courtesy of Stephen Alvarez's Blog)

Duckrabbit has produced a series of multimedia pieces on the Eastern Congo (website here). This particular piece is about children kidnaped by the Lords Resistance Army. As part of rehabilitation and counseling returned abductees are encouraged to draw their experiences. Eastern Congo is a hard place, suffering there is so common that it does not rate as news by the world media. The LRA in particular is a dark subject there is a reason that its leader is under indictment by the ICC.

-creative director of Duckrabbit,
"too often the photography world whirs around a sense of art and not people. Africa is the dark continent, but as I'm sure you know spend enough time there and your eyes adjust."

Well their eyes have adjusted well. They tell the story beyond the headlines -or lack of headlines- and bring back humanity. Theses are people suffering, people with names and stories.

Bahati's Story - Condition Critical from duckrabbit on Vimeo.

Commissioned by MSF Duckrabbit has put together fine pieces of advocacy and storytelling.

Keep Shooting.
-Braun

Help Portrait

Recently I had the great honor to be a part of a special project... Help Portrait. A crew of like minded and hearted UBER talented photographers got together and gave up their valuable time and amazing skills to shoot portraits of the south Dallas community centered around CornerStone Church....They let me tag along.

Help Portrait (Dallas) from jordan bellamy on Vimeo.

I left encouraged and moved after spending the day shooting a whole range of families and individuals. Some had never had their portrait taken....EVER. The Mom+Son+Aunt (shot below) hadn't had a family photo since Chris (the son) was 2 years old!

Their first family portrait! (below) So Why is this project so important? Well for one, History. These photo's will last generations. When a great great niece asks what Aunt Linda looked like, the family will have a photograph to show her. It's important for everybody to know that they are loved, beautiful, and worth remembering. Worth documenting their life.

This man helped start Cornerstone Church. The area is not in the best part of town. Pastor Chris told us stories about early days of drive by shootings and dead bodies found behind the building was a regular thing. This man shines love for his area. It was my great honor to take his portrait.

Here are the first video's of the founder of Help Portrait, Jeremy Cowart. Thank you Mr. Cowart for your heart.




Seeing great photographer like Chase Jarvis, Jeremy Cowart, and Austin Mann use their talents not just to pay the bills, but enrich other's lives out of the solid goodness of their hearts gives me a great hope for the future of photography. Keep Shooting.

Huge Thanks to everybody involved! Amazing job

Recently I had the chance to shoot one of my favorite Dallas Bands....ODIS. I've loved these guy's music for several years now, so I was pretty pumped when Larry, the lead singer, asked me to shoot them.

The direction from the guys is that they wanted this RAW.."just us".."this is me" kindv shots. No smoke or magic or uber lighting. If you are somewhat familiar with my work you know I like to explore the possibilities both in camera and in post. (computer software). WHAT NO PS, NO MASKS....NOPE. Oddly enough I felt liberated and challenged. It's good to be challenged.
Larry (Vocals)


Kindv kicking myself for not shooting some behind the scenes fun. Being the oldest of 3 brothers, makes me pretty at home with hanging with guys...doing guys stuff. Yes we had a nerf gun shoot out and Rob the guitar genius showed us how he could barely escape death while busting some sweet moves on the skateboard in the studio. My brothers and I all live pretty far away from each other now so just hanging out with these guys made me miss them quite a bit.
Mike (drummer)

While shooting we jabbered on about our favorite Bruce Lee Movies (Enter the Dragon...DUH) and the local Dallas music scene.
Rob (guitar)

Lighting: Imagine this!!! Subject 3-5 ft in front of the white backdrop.
An, AB1600 through a large octabox right behind me elevated pointed down. Another pointing at the back drop behind the subject. WOOWWWWW. 2 light was used.

Bristen (Bass)...(FYI Ashton Kutcher stole his sig look from Bristen)


HUGE THANKS TO Studman SEAN for all the help.

Have Fun and keep shooting!

Braun