Brian is a filmmaker who’s served as director, writer, cinematographer, producer, editor, and voiceover artist on innumerable fiction and non-fiction films, music videos, industrials, essays, and tutorials since 1995.
His documentary work has portrayed recent green energy efforts in Germany and Denmark for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. His YouTube channel features his latest short films, documentaries, and essays on a wide variety of culture, history, psychology, the arts, and science topics.
Ilex, a division of Hachette, published two of his books on photography: Why You Like This Photo, about the science of aesthetic preferences and visual perception in photography, published in 2018, and 30-Second Photography in 2014. He’s also published short fiction in two collections through the English Creative Writing Group Frankfurt, Open Bookcase I (2019) and Open Bookcase II (2020), for which he also illustrated and designed the covers.
His photography has been exhibited and collected worldwide, and published in the New York Times, Time Out, the Village Voice, on book covers for Simon and Schuster, Hyperion, Doubleday, and others.
He also served as the founding chair of the photography department of New York Film Academy 2010-2014, where he taught filmmaking and photography internationally until 2016. He also served as a spokesperson for Canon, for whom he wrote and acted in a series of photography tutorials. A veteran educator and public speaker, he’s been teaching a wide variety of topics regularly since 1988.
