PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOJOURNALISM

SHANE BROWN

Shane Brown is a photographer and cinematographer documenting the present-day cultural landscape(s) of the American West, experimenting with representations of time and motion, working on a variety of time-based media projects, and a 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee. Oklahoma-born, Shane is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, raised mostly within the Cherokee and Osage Nations. Photography clients include FX Networks, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and First Americans Museum, among many others. Brown has also contributed as cinematographer and director of photography for films by director Sterlin Harjo, including Mekko (2015) and This May Be the Last Time (2014). From 2020-2023, Brown was the set photographer for the critically acclaimed FX series, Reservation Dogs. Shane’s work is in the permanent collections of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, First Americans Museum, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, Oklahoma State Art Collection, and the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, NE.