Ian Brown is an award winning photographer whose work focuses on the human condition. His projects often revolve around the intersection of social and cultural divides and the landscapes we inhabit. 

Notable projects include “Lost between river and Sky” a commissioned body of work for MSF on the Darrien region of Colombia; “Languishing Impermanence”, a series exploring the transient relationship between humans and their environments - the way we build, inhabit, and inevitably leave behind the spaces that shape our lives; “All the sun long it was running” A landscape study inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem “Fern Hill”, of moments often unnoticed and arrested in place, as well as a long term project on the urban anthropology of Detroit. This collection, “Prairie and Pavement” was one of the featured exhibitions at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto in 2014.

His decade-long  project “American Dreams” - portraits and hand-written notes on the American condition was published internationally by Penguin Random House in 2020 to critical acclaim and was featured in various publications as one of the top photography books of that year. 

A follow up project “Land of Wolves” will be published in 2026. 

His project work has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Globe and Mail and Applied Arts among others. 

He lives and maintains a studio in Hillier, Prince Edward County. 

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