[ B I O G R A P H Y ]

Ron Brown was born in Rigby, Idaho, and raised in Salt Lake City where access to spectacular scenery afforded an early appreciation for desert and mountain landscapes. It was on many camping and hunting trips taken with his father that he learned to love Utah’s landscape. There is nothing like the sight, feeling and smell of the desert after a rainstorm!

He was trained in the Ansel Adams tradition of fine art photography, on a scholarship at Utah State University, where he studied the Zone System with an 8x10 inch view camera, processing and printing his own negatives.

He was first awarded publication in the prestigious Communication Arts Photography Annual while an undergraduate. He is part of the Utah Artists Project, listed as one of the top 200 of Utah's most prominent artists.

His Mr. Potato Head image is the first Photographic image purchased for the permanent collection in the Springville Museum of Art.

While living in Boston he supplied commercial images for many large corporations and advertising agencies, SAP, NEC, Kodak and Sun Microsystems to name a few. In addition, a lengthy list of publishers such as Ziff Davis, McGraw Hill and Crown Publishers purchased his images for covers for their books and magazines. He has exhibited and sold images in over 39 countries through representatives in Tokyo, Spain, London, New York, and Florida, and continues to produce and sell photographic images globally. He currently lives in Salt Lake City.