Patrick Grogan Brown

Patrick Grogan Brown, photographer

Red neon motel signs and looping trails of red, white, green and blue light, mirrored into a symmetrical figure

Light is often the subject of my work, and always the medium: from light drawn across the Vegas Strip and mirrored out of the neon of the Haight to a Gothic cathedral transformed by it. Subject or medium, my work with light can be viewed in the featured collections below. Scroll further to see the photographs sorted by specialty, beyond their designated collections.

A site built so friends and family can follow both my progress in the art form and the adventures I use photography as an excuse to embark upon, my hope is that it one day functions as a vehicle to self-employment. For prints, event coverage or to book a shoot, message me through the chat box found at the bottom of this page.

  1. The ship's masts lit in red, white and blue above long light trails on a road ARM Cuauhtémoc
  2. A starburst moon low over a long desert ridge, a path leading toward it under a deep blue dusk sky Moon over the Mojave
  3. Red neon light trails and a FOTO sign mirrored four ways into a symmetrical figure around a glowing amber centre From the Corner of Haight and Ashbury
  4. Black-and-white view down a Gothic cathedral nave toward its stained-glass windows Illumination of Grace
  5. Amber and red Las Vegas sign lights streaking across the frame above a glowing pillar Vegas Lights

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Photography

About

I make photographs of people, places and animals, and in my own work I paint with light itself.

Patrick with a group of friends posing together on a brightly lit casino floor, smiling and throwing hand signs

About this site

Through careful collaboration, Claude and I have built this site as a way to showcase collections of photos accumulated across the last year. Much like my life, this site is a work in progress. Often lost in the adventure, I forget the photos I have set out to take. I now find myself lost again in the adventure, this time one of my own making, a rotating web graphic for a site I didn’t know would exist a couple days ago. From generated text to incomplete collections, much of this site remains unfinished or left in the capable hands of Claude. All AI-generated imaging, from the background to the border of my rotating feature reel, is composed entirely of images captured by me.

Online collections

  1. Chinese New Year 1 new photograph · 15 October
  2. Vegas Lights 4 new photographs · 15 October
  3. From the Corner of Haight and Ashbury 1 new photograph · 15 October
  4. Deadly Views 20 new photographs · 14 October
  5. Pelican Point 1 new photograph · 14 October

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New collections

  1. Neon on 395
  2. Streets of San Francisco
  3. Fremont Freelands

Upcoming collections

  1. Flash Foto Frenzy Coming soon
  2. San Diego Sights Coming soon

Recent filmography

  1. Showreel and films Coming soon

Contact

For commissions, prints and licensing enquiries, send me a message here and I'll reply by email.