Richard W. Brown

Richard W. Brown is considered one of America's foremost photographers of rural life, gardens, and the New England landscape.

Richard grew up near Boston and attended Harvard College where he studied fine art. Initially using a camera to gather material for paintings, he was soon seduced by photography's unique charms. Abandoning brushes and paints for camera and film, he became a professional freelance photographer. At first he worked primarily on editorial assignments for magazines and newspapers such as Audubon, National Wildlife, Vermont life, Yankee, Country Journal, Geo,
The Washington Post and The New York Times. His work was also featured in many photography magazines including Camera, Outdoor Photographer and Modern Photography.

Over three decades Richard has published more than a dozen books including The View From the Kingdom, Moments in Eden, Pictures from the Country, Tasha Tudor's Garden, Richard Brown's New England, and The Soul of Vermont. Richard's photographs have won many accolades, including awards from the University of Missouri Pictures of the Year competition, the Art Director's Club of New York, and the Garden Writers of America award for the Book of the Year. His photographs have been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout Vermont, including the Shelburne Museum, the Southern Vermont Arts Center, the Fairbanks Museum, the Fleming Museum, Shelburne Farms, and the Vermont Statehouse. Richard and his wife Susan live on their old Vermont farm with their cats and chickens and a few occasional heifers and draft horses.

"When I photograph Vermont, I am drawn to the last remnants

of hill farm life, and the hidden, still wild corners of the state. I am
especially moved by those mundane but telling moments that reveal
simple truths about the day-to-day lives of the people who continue
to nurture this beautiful but begrudging Eden. I am drawn to certain
subjects and themes. I have a weakness for birch trees, barns, draft
horses, cemeteries, landscapes with sheep or cows in them, bodies of
water, still or moving, the moon, rising or setting, and anything old
or decrepit that bears witness to past Vermonters' short time in this
obstinate paradise and their efforts to wrest a hard-won living from it."