Photographer, printmaker, designer, publisher, educator, adman and entrepreneur
For more than twenty years I’ve been photographing New York City and sharing it on I Photo New York. What began as an obsession with photography has led me down paths I never expected, far from my earlier careers as an adman and internet CEO.
I went back to college to earn a degree in advertising design, then joined the faculty to teach it. Along the way I fell for the art and craft of fine printing, and I’ve since sold scores of limited-edition prints and self-published books.
I’m a lifelong entrepreneur, which mostly means I can’t stop experimenting, pushing my images, my designs and the way I make things a little further each time.
Where I’ve been
Photography
- Christmas scenes shown at Radio City Music Hall
My pictures flash across the screen, walls and ceiling during the Rockettes’ opening number, “Christmas in New York.” - Central Park panels for the lobby of the Park Central Hotel
Twenty-one 4′ × 5½’ panels on every wall of the massive lobby. - Two books of New York photography: One Hundred Prints You Must Own and Shooting New York in the Raw
- I Photo New York, a photo tour of the city in more than 1,000 series
The Internet
- Co-founded a media partnerships company in 2000 that built an online buying system for local TV time
We were first to market, but we couldn’t stay ahead of the bursting dot-com bubble. - Co-founded a firm that monetized aggregated local cable inventory
We sold it to our biggest client. - Today I run Chris Brady NY, the home of my websites and photography
Television
- Sales at KLJB TV18, Davenport, Iowa, and WTTE TV28, Columbus, Ohio
- FOX Network, FX and FOX News Network
I joined the network around the same time Joan Rivers did and left when they got the NFL. I sold the first commercial ever to run on FX, to Kellogg’s, and the first to break the $1,000 barrier on The O’Reilly Factor.
Education
- New York City College of Technology, Bachelor’s in Communication Design, 2018
Magna cum laude. - Borough of Manhattan Community College, Associate’s in Mathematics
While there, I was an assistant teacher at Facing History High School every Friday. - New York University
Night school, with newborn twins at home. - The Ohio State University
I didn’t get a diploma, but I did get an undying love for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
What I’m good at
At the bench
- Photography
- Printing
- Graphic design
- Visual framing
- Archiving
- Drafting architecture, machine jigs and fixtures
- Hand and machine tooling
- Turning music into art
- Understanding and explaining
- Finding the path forward
Everywhere else
- Cooking for large groups of people
- Driving fast
- Walking far
- Picking up heavy things and carrying them
- I talk cat
- Whistling really, really loud
My books
One Hundred Prints You Must Own
100 frame-ready New York prints, shot through unique lighting, weather and layers of glass. 212 pages.
Hardcover on Amazon · Softcover on Amazon · Artist proof on Blurb
Shooting New York in the Raw
My first book: a photomontage of New Yorkers that whisks you through a year in the city. 118 pages.
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