Brian Palmer

Brian Palmer is a Peabody Award-winning visual journalist living in Church Hill. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, Richmond Free Press, New Republic, and other publications; and on PBS, BBC, and Reveal. His photographs are in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Library of Congress.

Since the end of 2014, he and his wife, Erin Hollaway Palmer, have been part of the volunteer effort to reclaim East End Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground in Henrico County, Virginia, from nature, neglect, and vandalism. They are founding members of the Friends of East End.

Brian began his career as a fact-checker for the Village Voice. Before going freelance in 2002, he served in several staff positions—Beijing bureau chief for US News & World Report; staff writer at Fortune; and on-air correspondent at CNN. Brian was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for Full Disclosure, a video documentary about his three media embeds in Iraq with US Marine combat troops, completed in 2009.

Brian has taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the School of Visual Arts, Baruch College, New York University, Hampton University, and the University of Richmond. He is a member of SVA's Board of Directors.

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