Brent Stirton
Brent Striton, 39 was born in South Africa. With his varied career he is a proven master of capturing moments and is in a position to pick and choose his projects and stays true to his own identity as a photographer. On average Brent travels 10 months of the year on assignment and between jobs never liked to take more than 10 days off.
Style Documentary Photographer, Fashion Photographer and briefly Celebrity Portraiture
Beginnings Brent Striton was a journalism student in South Africa and accidentally became interested in photography when on assignment, a photographer didn’t make it so he ended up taking the pictures himself and was instantly hocked on photography.
Career Brent was a full-time Senior Staff Photographer for the largest photographic agency in the world, Getty. He has also been a photographer for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for a long time shooting campaigns for the environment. His work was published in all of the following magazines: National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek, GQ, The New York Times Magazine and the London Sunday Times. He also photographs for the Global Business Coalition against Aids, works for the Ford and Clinton Foundations, the World Economic Forum and the Nike Foundation.
Honors and Awards Brent Stirton was appointed one of 200 Young Global leaders in 2009 by the World Economics Forum. He is a three time winner of the China International Photographic Awards, an award from the National Press Photographers Association, Graphics and American Photography and in the same year received the ASME magazine publishers award for photojournalism for his Democratic Republic of Congo published in the National Geographic Magazine which became Getty Images most iconic editorial image from 2007. He is also a five time winner of the World Press Photo Foundation Awards not to mention awards from the United Nations for his work on HIV and the environment. Brent also received the Lucy Award for International Photographer of the Year and also the Visa D’or at the Visa Pour L’ Image Festival in France for Magazine photography both in 2008.
Today Right now Brent Stirton is known for being the first photographer to get the $12 million photo of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s baby, Shiloh Nouvel which proceeds went to charity. Thereafter a number of celebrities requested he photo them including Christina Aquilera and Brooke Shields.
Brent Stirton is now eager to focus on work that has special meaning to him personally and doesn’t stake claims to maintaining journalistic objectivity.
See his work here