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Today we’d like to introduce you to Milan Brown.
Hi Milan, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
When I was a kid, I felt pretty lost. I wasn’t particularly good at much of anything. I got good grades, but I didn’t have anything that was me. Something that people see and say, “Oh, Milan does that!”
That was until I won the Scholastic Read 180 All-stars Essay contest, and they told me that my family and I were going to be flying to San Antonio, Texas, to meet Muhammad Ali. My parents bought a camera so they could document the trip, an Olympus D-535. By the end of the trip, the camera was practically a part of me, and I spent my teenage years after that learning everything I could about photography and videography.
For the longest time after that, I career-hopped, thinking that I couldn’t make a living out of what I was passionate about. I, of course, did some gig work for friends and family, but it took until I met my wife for me to realize that I could actually make photography and videography my full-time job.
Now I am applying over 12 years of experience in the field, and I haven’t felt like I have worked a day since.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Absolutely not. Before I became a freelance photographer, I was an engineer and a police officer and worked in I.T. All at different points in my life, of course, but all of those jobs had trials that came along with them.
Even harder still, becoming a freelance photographer was completely different than anything I had ever done before. With all of the jobs I’d worked in the past, there is always someone or something guiding what you will be doing the next day, always more work coming from somewhere.
Owning my own photo and video firm, I’ve had to figure all of the “where” and “when” out by myself. At first, that was a nightmare, but over time, I found people and programs to help me along the way. That is not to say I have it all figured out either; I am still learning and growing, just like everyone else.
The hardest fight is always knowing that there is more to learn no matter how long you have been at something.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
As both a photographer and cinematographer (videographer), I really specialize in telling stories more than anything else. Yes, I do portraits, events, and product work, but unlike many of my peers, I am more focused on telling a story with my work than capturing what someone or something looked like that day.
For example, let’s say you want to have a birthday party. Some artists will show up and document you blowing out the candles and opening gifts, things like that. I, on the other hand, want someone to look at those photos or videos and feel like they are there. I want you to be able to smell and taste what it would have been like to be there in the moment I am capturing behind the camera. That is what is important to me, and that is what I feel sets me apart.
I don’t just take photos or record videos. I cast dreams.
Can you share something surprising about yourself?
I have a very strange superpower/Achilles heel. If I am not actively distracting myself, I will become hyperfocused on something completely random and not get any work done.
While I am editing, working, or anything really, I have to have at least three things occupying some amount of my attention.
For example, when I am editing photos, I will have either an audiobook or youtube playing on one of my four monitors at my desk; I will be in a voice chat with some of my other photography friends, talking to them about whatever project they are working on and still have my last screen filled with photos from another friend giving them critiques on what they should work on or what I would have done differently.
And without all of that going on at once… I would probably be staring at one picture, feeling like something about it is not quite right for 4 hours without any work actually happening.
Contact Info:
- Website: morpheusvisuals.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morpheus.visuals/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorpheusVisuals
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@whoismilanbrown
Image Credits
Morpheus Visuals
