Thomas Brummett was born in 1955 in Colorado. He studied photography at Colorado State University and
the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and has worked as a freelance photographer
since 1983. From 1985 to 1990 he also taught photography at the University of Arts in Philadelphia. His
works are included in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Phil-
adelphia Museum of Art, and the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Brummett was hon-
oured with many awards for his photographic work. In addition to other prizes, he received the International
Photography Award in 2004, 2009 and 2012 and in 2014 he was granted the Sony World Photography
Award. Thomas Brummett lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Press Release - Thomas Brummett is an artist who is on a journey that follows two intertwined paths. Thoughtful and patient, he is on a quest to discover the essence of the natural world by focusing on the immediate before him—a twig, a fleeing light beam. He is also an explorer of the medium of photography, experimenting with the myriad ways of making an image with light and marks on the surface of light sensitive paper. All Brummett’s work is from his life-long series Rethinking the Natural.
Born in Colorado in 1955, Brummett matured with an appreciation of arid deserts and soaring mountains. He was educated in ceramics and photography at the Colorado State University (BFA, 1979) and the Cranbroo Academy of Art in Michigan, (MFA, 1982), after which he settled in Philadelphia and had a daughter. Rais...