Brian was born in Los Angeles. He spent much of his youth disassembling things with many parts and amusing himself making electrical circuits. Curious to know how computers worked, he designed and built one from scratch. It had flashing lights, many switches and buttons, and was generally useless.
Brian studied software engineering at the University of Colorado, and after graduating moved to Paris on a whim. He planned to stay for a summer, but ended up living there for ten years... eventually earning a masters degree in telecommunications. Working in France, he was the lead prototype engineer on a mobile satellite communications system that later became Sirius Radio. None of this had anything to do with photography. His left brain flourished; his right brain languished.
One day, Brian picked up a friend’s Mamiya camera. Resisting the urge to disassemble it, he decided to make some pictures instead. The resulting images were published, and a new career direction was born. His work has since been featured in magazines such as GEO and Conde Nast Traveler. He has won awards from Photo District News, and National Geographic Traveler, but would never tell you because he is too modest. Brian has traveled to more than 50 countries and is fluent in three languages - English, French, and Spanish. Also, he is ambidextrous.