Joel Brand

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First Name	Joel
Last Name	Brand
Graduation Year	Faculty
Gender	Male
Current Location	Richfield, Minnesota
Hometown	Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Me	Skywarn spotter for the National Weather Service. @Skywarn55419 on Twitter. In 2006 I was diagnosed with 2 types of cancer. Cancer free now, I have put behind me the high stress work of non-profits and government and went back to my passion of photography. Learning photography while working for my father and uncle at Brand's Camera store in downtown Minneapolis I have been capturing images since 1971. As the saying goes, a photo is worth a thousand words, and those words tell the story of the photograph - the subject, location, time, composition. My passion has been to capture those stories on film, and today digitally. Every time I take a photo I realize it is a moment in time; an image that freezes a fraction of a second. But that image can have a history that goes ba...(read more)