Brian Palmer is a photographer and writer based in New York. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, US News & World Report, and other publications. His piece, Digital Diary: Witnessing the War, is included in Democracy in America, a project by PixelPress. Sipa Press distributes his photographs domestically and internationally. He has written for Newsday, Newsweek International, Aperture, Fortune, The Village Voice, The City Sun, Emerge, The New York Times Magazine, Rutgers Magazine, US News & World Report, Entertainment Weekly, and Savoy. Palmer is a member of the Photography & Imaging Department faculty at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He lectures at The School of Visual Arts' MFA Photography, Video & Related Media Program.

From 2000 through 2002, Palmer was a correspondent for CNN. He was a Staff Writer at Fortune from 1998 to 2000 and Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report for the two years prior to that. Before serving as US News's China correspondent, Palmer was an Assistant Editor on the magazine's international desk, and a staff photographer for the magazine. He began his career in journalism as a fact-checker and freelance everyman at The Village Voice.

Palmer earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Photography from New York City's School of Visual Arts. In the mid-1980s, he studied Chinese language and history at Nanjing University in the People's Republic of China.

He lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is a Sagittarius.

I search for the essential human elements in each situation I encounter. I have developed and followed other threads as a journalist and image maker, but I return always to the person I am meeting, framing with my camera -- not simply as a subject, but as an individual. It is through such people that I learn about local reality. It is then my job to connect this reality to the global one. -- BP