<span class="text"><font color="#282828" class="text"> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <font size="2" style="font-weight: bold;"><img width="263" hspace="10" height="350" align="right" src="/users/BrianSmith4581/Image//brian_smith_sepia2.jpg" alt="Brian Smith in Bora Bora" /></font></span><font size="2" style="font-weight: bold;"> Pulitzer Prize-winning</font><font size="2" style="font-weight: bold;"> photographer</font><font size="2"> <a href="http://www.briansmithmiami.com">Brian Smith</a></font><font size="2"> has been creating bold, graphic images of celebrities, athletes and executives for magazines, annual reports, corporations and advertising for more than 25 years. Smith's photographs of famous and infamous faces of the noteworthy and notorious have graced the covers and pages of hundreds of magazines.<br /> <br /> </font><span style="font-weight: bold;">H</span><font size="2" style="font-weight: bold;">is first magazine photograph</font><font size="2" style="font-weight: bold;"> </font><font size="2">appeared in LIFE </font><font size="2">Magazine when Smith wa</font><font size="2">s a 20-year-old journalism student at the University of Missouri</font><font size="2">. Just five years later, Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his photographs of the Los Angeles Olympic Games</font><font size="2">. He was again a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil. His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the Seoul Olympics won first place in both World Press Photo and the Pictures of the Year competition and he was twice named as one of American Photo magazine's "New Faces in Photography."<br /> <br style="font-weight: bold;" /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Featured on the cover </span>of the <em>Photo District News</em> Portraiture Issue and the <em>Communication Arts</em> Photography Annual, Smith's work appears in </font><font size="2"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sports Illustrated, </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-style: italic;">ESPN the Magazine, Time, Forbes, </span></font><font size="2" style="font-style: italic;">New York Times Magazine</font><font size="2" style="font-style: italic;">, Parade</font><font size="2"> and </font><font size="2" style="font-style: italic;">Ocean Drive</font><font size="2">. His corporate clients include the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Kraft, Nabisco, TNT </span>and<span style="font-style: italic;"> NBC.</span> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Smith appeared on</span> Fine Living Channel teaching a Little League Mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer. He is frequently speaker at photography seminars and to photo students at colleges, universities and art institutes around the country. Brian Smith is the President of Editorial Photographers, an organization of over 2,000 of the top magazine </font><font size="2"> photographers </font><font size="2">and </font><font size="2"><font size="2">newspaper photojournalists from around the world. <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">His photography career began</span> as a high school swimmer clearly not destined for the Olympics <span style="font-style: italic;">in the pool</span>, yet this provided him with the opportunity to photograph swimming and other sports as a stringer for the <span style="font-style: italic;">Ames Daily Tribune.</span><br /> <br /> </font><font size="2" style="font-weight: bold;">Three million miles</font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> later </span>on </font></font><font size="2"><font size="2">assignments</font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"> to </font></font><font size="2"><font size="2">six continents</font><font size="2">, Smith can</font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"> </font><font size="2">often </font><font size="2"><font size="2">be found in the bulkhead aisle seat on an American Airlines flight headed to the Caribbean, Latin America or the American South from his home in Miami Beach, Florida.<br /> <br /> </font></font></font><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"> <br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" /> </font></font></font></span><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: italic;">"I've got the greatest job in the world. My worst days as a photographer might be the greatest days in the lives of many people." -- Brian Smith</span></font></font></font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><br /> <span class="text"> </span></font></font></font></p></font></span><br>
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