Miami Florida celebrity advertising photographer Brian Smith photographs celebrities, athletes and corporate executive portraits for magazines, annual reports and advertising. He is known for bold, colorful celebrity portraits shot on location in Florida or around the world. l AWARD WINNING MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHER: The first magazine photograph by Brian Smith appeared in LIFE Magazine when Smith was a 20-year-old college student at the University of Missouri. Just five years later, Brian Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. In 1988 while a staff photographer at the Miami Herald, Brian Smith was again a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photographs of "Haiti in Turmoil." Brian Smith photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympics won first place in both World Press Photo and the Pictures of the Year competition. Smith was twice named as one of American Photo magazine's "New Faces in Magazine Photography. l MAGAZINE AND EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR PUBLICATION: Brian Smith has been featured on the cover of the Photo District News Portraiture Issue, Communication Arts' Photography Annual and a 5-page Feature Article in After/Capture Magazine. His magazine photography appears in editorial publications like Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Forbes, New York Times Sunday Magazine and Ocean Drive. l MIAMI FLORIDA ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY: Brian Smith creates bold, graphic photographs for advertising clients from around the world including campaigns for Kraft, Nabisco, NBC, Universal and Turner Network Television. l MIAMI FLORIDA COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORT PHOTOGRAPHER: Brian Smith photographs commercial photography assignments, corporate annual reports and corportate communications for clients include the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ l PHOTOGRAPHY TRADE ORGANIZATIONS: Editorial Photographers President Brian Smith is among the leading magazine photographers in America. Editorial Photographers (EP) is an organization of over 2,000 of the top magazine photographers and newspaper photojournalists from around the world. Smith is also a member of American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and Advertising Photographers of America (APA) l TELEVISION PERSONALITY AND TRADE SHOW PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKER: Celebrity Photographer Brian Smith has appeared on the Fine Living Channel's "Me vs Me" where he taught a "Little League Mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer."  Smith is frequently a speaker at photography seminars speaking to professional photographers and giving advice to photography students at colleges, universities and art institutes around the United States. l SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY: ATHLETES AND ACTION: His photography career began as a high school swimmer clearly not destined for the Olympics in the pool, yet this provided him with the opportunity to photograph swimming and other sports for the Ames Daily Tribune. As a sports photographer, Smith has covered the Olympics, Super Bowls, NBA Finals, World Series, NCAA Final Four. Today he concentrates on photographing intimate portraits of athletes off the field of play. l STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY: A list of Brian Smith's stock photography can be found in a searchable database at BigShotStock. l PHOTOGRAPHY INDUSTRY BLOG: The latest photography news from Brian Smith appears on his photo industry blog Brian Smith Photo News. l SHOOTING IN FLORIDA: Work with one of the top photographers on your next studio or location shoot in Florida. l TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY: Smith has traveled three million miles on assignments to six continents around the world. He can often be found on an American Airlines flight headed to the Caribbean, Latin America or the American South from his home in Miami Beach, Florida USA l WIKIPEDIA: Photographer Brian Smith biographyappears on Wikipedia.