Brian Palmer

Biography

Brian Palmer is a Richmond, VA-based journalist. With colleagues Seth Freed Wessler and Esther Kaplan, he received the Peabody Award for “Monumental Lies,” a 2018 Reveal radio story about public funding for Confederate sites. Palmer is the Joan Konner Visiting Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Photo: Erin Hollaway Palmer

See Work

PHOTOGRAPHY / Fall 2022

American Homegoing

By Brian Palmer

On the Richness of the Black Funeral Tradition

Funeral at Wilson & Associates’ Funeral Service. Richmond, VA, January 2022.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Winter 2020

The Lives of East End

Photography by Brian Palmer ,  Essay by Kiki Petrosino

Recovering African American Burial Grounds

Photo by Brian Palmer