Patrick Brown (born Jan 23, 1969) is an Australian

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and photographer. Brown's project on the illegal trade in endangered animals won a World Press Photo Award in 2004 and a multimedia award from POYi in 2008. His book ''Trading to Extinction'' was nominated in the ten best photo documentary books of 2014 by AmericanPhoto. In 2019, he published ''No Place On Earth'' which provides an intimate portrait of the survivors of the persecution of the Myanmar's Rohingya population in 2017. Brown has been the recipient of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award and two World Press Photo Awards. His work has been exhibited internationally at Centre of Photography in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, and Visa pour l’Image in France. His work is also held in private collections. He has contributed to

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, Vanity Fair,

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, and

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, and has worked with

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, Fortify Rights, and

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Life and work

Brown was born in Sheffield, England, but spent his childhood in the Middle East and Africa before his family finally settled in Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of the 2014 book, ''Trading to Extinction'', which documents the illegal animal trade in Asia. The book was shortlisted by AmericanPhoto for as one of the 10 best documentary books of 2014. The book is also the subject of a video documentary by Vice Media.Archived a
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Awards

Brown was awarded a

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award in the category "General news, singles" in 2018 for his work documenting the

Rohingya The Rohingya people () are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar (previously known as Burma). Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an ...

refugees in

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

. The photograph showed the bodies of Rohingya refugees laid out after the boat in which they were attempting to flee

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

capsized. The work was commissioned by

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, for

References

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