Bonderman Travel Fellowship

M. Scott Brauer

Philosophy; Russian Language Literature & Culture with College Honors

Undergraduate

2003 Fellows

Travel Locations: Malawi, India, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Belgium

Brauer’s travels will allow him to experience the poetry of birth and death via photography and conversation with the people of Malawi, Germany, India, and Russia.

Alumni Reflections

How did the Bonderman impact your life?

“I’ve been working as a photojournalist for nearly 20 years, which is a completely different track than I was on before going on my Bonderman fellowship. It instilled a life-long passion for travel and meeting people around the world and somehow managed to make that into a career. I’m still in contact with a few of the people I met on my trip continue to travel in the spirit of the Bonderman fellowship whenever I can.”

What are you doing now?

“I had a photo exhibition in Bulgaria earlier this year and will hopefully be doing an art residency in Estonia next year. Now I’ve got a 5-year-old, but that only opens up new opportunities to explore; we took her to India when she was 8 months old and continue to travel with her. “