I was born on the 22nd day of October, 1979 and taken home to a small apartment in South Ozone Park in Queens, New York. At the age of 14 my parents moved my brother and I to Massapequa Park, Long Island. I grew up in small house a few blocks from the woods.

I went to Massapequa High School, where in 1997, I graduated with a NY Regents Diploma with advanced placement college level art classes. After high school I attended Nassau Community College where I studied Commercial Art and became the first Rawson to go to college, graduate and receive a degree in 1999.

My first job after college was working at a busy Times Square Kinkos located in the News Building. I was the Graphics Supervisor in the computer and printing department designing and printing on various accounts ranging from MTV to WWF, Ralph Lauren to GMC, etc. Working at Kinko’s help me find my second job. One of the clients, Bang Bang Clothing company, needed a graphic artist who knew how to work an oversized ink jet printer. They hired me as Asst. Art Director to work in their 8th st. Greenwich Village office in 2001. There I scanned film from their photoshoots, airbrushed the photos and designed and printed huge 60 square foot photo billboards that hung in all of their stores.

After working at Bang Bang for two seasons I was offered a job at a worldwide corporate lawfirm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCloy, located off Wall St. in the Financial District of Manhattan. Shortly after I was hired I became the only person in the art department for the whole company aside from the webmaster. I was responsible for everything from designing advertisements to portrait photography of the partners and associates for all of their international offices. Due to the impact of 9/11 being so close to the firms main office where I worked I was laid off and started my pursuit of photography in 2003. That's when I self started a pretty makeshift modeling agency and started getting work as a photographer. That summer while photographing a swimsuit calendar in Long Beach a news team approached the models and I was featured on TV for the first time on the news.

In 2004 it was time to go back to work. I was hired as the Art Director for SP News Publishing in Long Island. I was the Art Director & Production Manager for the companies 4 weekly newspapers. Aside from having to design all of the newspapers editorial stories and advertisements, I also went on news photography assignments and had a weekly photo column entitled “Brian’s Photo of the Week”. In 2005 the company started to go bankrupt and I was laid off again. Shortly after I began to do mostly freelance work. Doing side jobs for an ad firm working on accounts for Cablevision, Dominos Sugar, etc. doing graphic design.

In 2006 I got back into photography strong and I started to do work for the British Broadcast Company photographing celebrity portraits such as Whoopi Goldberg and Miss Piggy. Working for the BBC helped me get my first photograph on a magazine cover. It was a portrait of Tracey Ullman and Dawn French on the cover of Radio Times, a British magazine similar to TV Guide.

In 2006 I wanted to focus on exhibiting my artwork in art galleries. The first show was at Art @ Large in Manhattan. It was a group show of 50 artists. My work was exhibited alongside artists like H.R. Giger and Annie Sprinkle at that show. I sold two pictures at that show and was very happy. Shortly after I found myself exhibiting in my first museum show at the Vanderbilt Museum in Long Island, followed by 15 more art shows at various places such as Gallery 4222 in Long Island and the Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons.

I find myself now in 2007 doing mostly freelance and personal work. I have been doing a lot of event photography such National Underwear Day, Modelween and weddings and even sports events such as the Championship Hofstra University Hockey Team and also the Long Island Roller Rebels. Now that I have my roots set for my personal creative ventures and continue to do lots of art shows I think it is time for me to go back to work full time. I am looking for a strong and steady company in which I can use my talents to develop a long relationship with. I am committed to working as an art director, graphic artist and photographer. I am confident that I can prove to be a strong asset for any art department over a long period of time and I look forward to starting that relationship with your company.