I’ve filed multiple page-one features for The Wall Street Journal and worked as a photo assistant for editorial and TV clients. I’m part of the L.A. Press Photographers Association and winner of a 2026 National Press Photographers Foundation scholarship. I hold an F.A.A. Part 107 license for aerial drone photography and video.

I am based in Phoenix and available for assignments around the Southwest U.S. and beyond.

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Gas flares from the Kawasaki oil refinery near Tokyo Haneda Airport. As much as 93 per cent of Japan’s oil comes from the Strait of Hormuz, which was under blockade at the time of capture
Thought to have inspired Dante’s Inferno, the Valle del Diavolo is now tangled with steel tubes, threading through forests and leaping over roads. This is the site of the world’s first geothermal power plant
Sen Yamanaka, member of the National Diet’s House of Councillors in Japan and part of the country’s hard-right populist Sanseito party. He was one of the last people to interview American political activist Charlie Kirk
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi rises to speak at a memorial event for the Fukushima disaster
Rainforest Action Network’s Japan Team Manager Yuki Sekimoto leads campaigns against Japanese banks’ funding of fossil fuel projects, including the country’s largest, M.U.F.G.
Harvesting potatoes by horseplow in Lëpushë, Albania
Protests in Phoenix hours after Border Patrol agents killed I.C.U. nurse Alex Pretti
Union activist Harold Fuller in Phoenix
Terme San Filipo in Tuscany on New Year’s Day
Sen Yamanaka’s eye during an interview
Billy and Tracy prepare pasta for a supper club in Camberwell
Thermal delight on the first day of Spring in Tokyo
A distant house fire over North Phoenix
César Manrique’s Monumento al Campesino in Lanzarote
Volcanic roads in Lanzarote
A caldera crater in the Timanfaya National Park
At Tommy Robinson’s May 2026 “Unite the Kingdom” rally
At Tommy Robinson’s May 2026 “Unite the Kingdom” rally
At Tommy Robinson’s May 2026 “Unite the Kingdom” rally
Rebecca Savage watches as her daughter jumps on a trampoline. I was reminded of a video my mum made of me on my childhood trampoline when I made these pictures
Grant Johnson graduates
Labor union organizer Vonda Wilkins at her desk
Labor union organizer Vonda Wilkins at work as a customer service operator
Refurbished chairs at National Office Liquidators in Phoenix
Dancing on the roof of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy
The Amado Church at Arivaca Junction, southern Arizona, has a rotating stable of Christian puns. It’s a point of levity for drivers before they meet the Border Patrol checkpoint round the corner
Arizona State University’s big, bright billboard on the way into Downtown Phoenix
Recruiter Jeff Seifert interviews a potential client
Quỳnh dries her hair with a towel on her wedding day. Monsoon rains had lashed down on Arivaca and we had all gone out to dance in them
The 2026 solar eclipse shot on my iPhone. I walked around Brighton beach giving people a few minutes with my eclipse glasses in return for a picture
Brighton, my home town, in high summer
Magma fields on Lanzarote seen from the rim of a volcano
Outside the memorial for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona
Outside the memorial for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona
Billy surrounded by tree roots
International students overlook the ASU Tempe campus
Deer outside Biosphere 2 near Tucson, Arizona
A water tower in Page, Arizona, just outside the Navajo Nation. I was here to report a story on Diné water access inequality
A No Kings protest in Phoenix in November 2025
Alfie and Sara’s first date, sitting on the rocks of Inverarish Burn in Raasay. I left them for the evening soon after taking this picture
A fire in Raasay, Scotland, during the annual island gala
Waterfall in Umachan, Raasay
Peering over the cliff edge at Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
New border wall construction in the San Rafael Valley, Arizona
At the Todgha Gorge in Morocco
Alfie at Inver Bay, Raasay
The August 2026 lunar eclipse, seen from Phoenix
Birch trees near Lucca
Geothermal pipelines snaking through Valle del Diavolo in Tuscany
The aftermath of a microburst storm in Tempe, Arizona
The August 2025 haboob advances on south Phoenix
At the Albert memorial during the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II
Dunes at dawn in Merzouga, Morocco
Deep in the Todgha Gorge, Morocco
LaDeana Thompkins holds her son
The choir of Asaka Reimei High School at the 15th anniversary memorial to the Fukushima disaster
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi makes a prayer for those affected by the Fukushima disaster
The Director of Arizona State University’s Compact X-ray Free-Electron Laser laboratory, Petra Fromme
Goggles required to enter the CXFEL laser room
Protestors outside the D.H.S. Phoenix field office hours after Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti
Protestors outside the D.H.S. Phoenix field office hours after Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti
Protestors outside the D.H.S. Phoenix field office hours after Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti
The fruits of labor in Lëpushë, Albania
Free fall at Wet Beaver Creek, Arizona
Teetering at Wet Beaver Creek, Arizona
Laxmi near El Ejido, Spain
Tomatoes in a greenhouse near El Ejido, Spain
Biosphere 2, near Tucson, Arizona
Headshot of journalist Reuben J. Brown in green soft, filtered light. He wears a black suede jacket.

Reuben J. Brown

Multimedia investigative journalist