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Jonathan Brooks is an award winning photographer, whose work has been exhibited in Art Basel Miami, New York City, Amsterdam, and the United Kingdom. Brooks graduated magna cum laude with a BS degree double major in Advertising and Fine Art Photography and a minor in Marketing from the University of Miami. His studies in graphic design and architecture, and extensive backgrounds in the fashion industry and music industry have also helped to influence his work. He has numerous photography exhibitions to his credit and is currently working on his next.
Brooks is a rare Miami native who sometimes writes and photographs reviews for GreatFoodList.com, launched his Teach&Greet Bilingual Greeting Cards line on CardGnome.com, and is the shop owner of Jonathan Brooks Visual Arts on Etsy.com. In October 2013, he took his first foray into motion as a top ten finalist in HD Video Pro and Digital Photo Pro magazines' 7th Annual Emerging Pro Still & Motion Competition, where he completed his first short film 5 SKULLS that can be found on youtube on a then yet to be introduced to the market RED EPIC camera. His photography was just featured in July on one of the biggest billboards in Times Square, taking over the entire 25-story-tall massive animated billboard and he just published his Kickstarter funded The True Cuba book, which can be found on Amazon. You can follow his work at JonathanBrooks.net.
All proceeds from Howie Good's latest book of poetry, Fugitive Pieces (Right Hand Press, 2014), go to the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley.