Brittainy Newman is a freelance visual journalist based in New York City. A 2018 graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Photojournalism program, she joined The New York Times as a year-long photography newsroom fellow in 2019. She now works for The New York Times and The Associated Press as a frequent contributor.
Her work takes the familiar and turns it on its head, by viewing the world from a strange, but illuminating new angle. Common themes in her work are the exploration of loss and sacrifice, as they play out in the sphere of family, politics and labor.
To date, Brittainy has had ten (10) front page covers above the fold for The New York Times.
In 2021, The Associated Press selected two of Brittainy’s images to be included in “A Year That Changed Us: 12 Months in 150 Photos” — a special issue that relives the most significant moments through extraordinary photographs captured by photographers of The Associated Press.
She also had two images featured in The New York Times “Year in Pictures” for the year 2020, a portrait of President Joseph R. Biden and a self portrait documenting her quarantine during lockdown. And in 2019, The New York Times selected her image of a couple kissing at Pride for the “Year in Pictures.”
In 2018, she placed gold in the Individual Multimedia category at the 73rd College Photographer of the Year competition, and achieved an Award of Excellence in the Portrait category. In 2017, Brittainy was selected by Photo Boite as one of their 30 Under 30 women photographers and attended the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Her work has been recognized by ABC News, Bloomberg, Buzzfeed News, CNN, The Daily Gazette, The Daily News, The Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, MARVEL, META, National Geographic YourShot, NBC, Newsday, NPR, Orthodox Times, Outside Magazine, PDN Edu, Politico, ROKT, Rolling Stone Magazine, Robinhood, Smithsonian Magazine, Spectrum News NY1, Teachable, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Tampa Bay Times, The Times of Israel, US Bank, USNews, VOGUE India, Vice News, WWE, WNBA, Yahoo News and more.
2022 Rolling Stone Magazine - Burna Boy’s Big Night
2022 David Bergman’s Photographer Pick - Behind The Shot TV
2021 Associated Press - A Year That Changed Us: 12 Months in 150 Photos
2021 No Stopping New York Campaign in collaboration with SS+K and the Mayor’s Office of New York
2021 COVID Photo Museum | Rotterdam Photo - Deep Stories: The Story Behind the Photograph
2020 Focus Unfocus Podcast Interview
2020 New York Times - Year in Pictures
2020 New York Times - Times Insider Feature and Interview
2019 New York Times - Year in Pictures
2019 Best Visual Storytelling (Larger Newsroom) Finalist: Education Writers Association
2019/2020 New York Times Fellow
2019 PDN Edu Fall Feature and Interview
2019 PDN Edu Spring Feature and Interview
2019 College Photographer of the Year Interview
2018 CPOY 73rd Gold Individual Multimedia
2018 CPOY 73rd Award of Excellence Portrait
2018 Momenta Workshop West Award Recipient
2018 The Image Deconstructed Interview
2018 30 UNDER 30: Women Photographers selected by Photo Boite, Artpil
Get in touch.
Brittainynewman@gmail.com | 646.525.0863