Brad Rickerby Photographer Artist

I might just as well have been born with a camera in his hand. The son of LIFE staff photographer Arthur Rickerby, I developed a profound visual aesthetic early on and had my first publication credit in LIFE in 1966 at the age of nine.

I flirted with the business world in the '80's, earned an MBA (Duke, '89) and worked on Wall Street with the Dreyfus Corporation. But inevitably I was compelled to reject the confines of the corporate world, to return to my creative roots.

My re-birth into creativity came in 1991 when I started shooting for the Brooklyn (NY) Phoenix. From there I went on to do paparazzi work for Sipa Press and eventually to news photography as a full time stringer for Reuters based out of New York City.

In 1998, based on my developing Photoimpressionism and City Lights projects, I signed a contract with Tony Stone (later Stone, still later Getty).

Through distributions by Getty, Reuters, Sipa and most recently Agefotostock, my work has been published on six continents and by virtually every major publication in the world. My images have also been widely used by corporations, governments and institutions.

A short list of my clients and credits include: LIFE, Time, People, Newsweek, The New York Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Moosylvania, Random House, Goldman Sachs, Harpo Productions, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Motorola, Samsung, E! Entertainment TV, Le Figaro, AOL France, Stern, Hasbro, Forbes, Paris Match, Microsoft, Dell, the Government of the People's Republic of China, Bank of Boston, Bell South, Cingular, E-Trade, MTV, Vogue, Lonely Planet Guides, ABC Primetime, Hong Kong Times, Singapore Straight Times, Die Aktuel, The London Times, Esquire, Maxim, New York Magazine, Playboy, Playgirl, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, VH1, and on and on and on.

In 2001 I was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for my work in New York City on 11 September.

In 2004 I added painting to his repertoire. I work in a variety of media (oil, acrylic, watercolor etc.) matching the media to suit the mood of the image I want to create. My paintings share many similarities to my photography. They all revolve around the aesthetics of abstraction, chaos and tranquility, of color and light and motion.