[5] Through these platforms he is able to reach millions of followers to inform and educate on social and political issues in remote and under-reported areas of the world.
[5] In 2011, Brown spent seven months in Libya photographing the Libyan Revolution,[6] exploring ethical distance and the iconography of warfare.
Six weeks later, while covering the Siege of Misrata, he was injured by incoming mortar fire and took four pieces of shrapnel to the chest, shoulder and arm, losing nearly half the blood in his body and requiring two transfusions.
[12] In March 2012 Brown and Men's Journal writer Josh Davis were briefly kidnapped at gunpoint while covering a drifting event in Benghazi.
A contributing photographer at National Geographic[14] since 2005, where he has completed adventure and cultural stories, Brown is also a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other publications.