Profile

Last updated 16:12 Mon 07 Apr 2008

I am a published art, fashion and entertainment photographer, graphic artist and illustrator with 15 years experience in art direction and digital art and production. Primarily working in the publicity, entertainment and fashion industries. I also have a strong background in film and web media.

Trained as a poet and artist at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (BA/MFA). Worked and lived in Prague, Czech Republic as a new media film industry art director for feature films and commercials while co-founding Prague School of Poetics in my free time. Worked in Chicago and New York as a freelance graphic artist and videographer. Returned to Louisville in 2003.

While I have dabbled in photography since the mid-nineties, I didn't call myself a photographer until I picked up a camera out of necessity while working on graphic and video projects for a modeling agency. Have been a photographer since.

Although I keep a few high-profile publicity and design clients, and loosely maintain a consulting business, fashion and illustrative photography is my passion and all goals intersect here.

As a divorced full time father of two lovely children, Diamanda (6) and Dorian (2.5), I take life very seriously. I do with what I have and offer up a down-n-dirty stylistic approach to my imagery.

Ideas are everything. without them, you can have all the skill and technology in the world and still be noting more than mediocrity.

Website: http://www.bilbrown.com