13 Facts About Brian Brake

John Brian Brake was a photographer from New Zealand.

Brian Brake was raised initially at Doyleston, before his father moved the family to Arthur's Pass, where his father owned the general store, and Christchurch, where he attended Christchurch Boys' High School.

Brian Brake trained with Wellington portrait photographer Spencer Digby from 1945.

Brian Brake worked on 17 films at the Unit, mostly as a cameraman, occasionally as a director.

Snows of Aorangi, one of three NFU films Brian Brake directed, was the first New Zealand film nominated for an Academy Award, in the Best Short Subject category in 1959.

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Brian Brake worked as freelance photographer in Europe, Africa and Asia until the mid-1960s, when he began working more exclusively for Life magazine.

Brian Brake is best known for his 1957 and 1959 coverage of China and his 1955 photographs of Pablo Picasso at a bullfight.

Brian Brake used Aparna Das Gupta as the model for what was to become one of his best known photographs from the "Monsoon" series — a shot of a girl holding her face to the first drops of monsoon rain.

Brian Brake took me up to the terrace, had me wear a red sari in the way a village girl does, and asked me to wear a green stud in my nose.

In 1970, Brian Brake founded Zodiac Films in Hong Kong and made documentary films in Indonesia for the following six years.

Brian Brake commissioned an East Asian influenced architectural award-winning house designed by Ron Sang on Titirangi's Scenic Drive, in the Waitakere Ranges to the west of Auckland; the house has a Category 1 Heritage New Zealand rating.

Brian Brake lived there with his life partner, Wai-man Lau, for the remainder of his life, although he continued to accept freelance assignments abroad.

Brian Brake was careful to retain his negatives and transparencies, as well as copyright, wherever possible.