Steven Brandt

Lecturer, Department of Communication

About

Steven Brandt owned a successful full-service photography studio in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years. During that time, he was a featured speaker for photographic groups throughout the United States and mentored professional photographers, helping them improve their photographic techniques and business processes. He has taught digital photography at the college level since 2014.

He has an AAS degree in Visual Communication, is a Certified Professional Photographer, and earned a Master of Photography Degree from the Professional Photographers of America. His work has been selected numerous times for exhibition at national and regional professional photography conventions.

Courses Taught

PLSCI 1225: Photography Through a Scientific Lens

COMM 3070: Communicating Today: Creating Strategic Visual Messages Across Media

Contact Information

srb334 [at] cornell.edu

Steven in the news

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News

January 21, 2026

COMM Updates - 1/21/2026

January 21, 2026 Awards & Grants Professor danah boyd has been awarded a Research Seed Grant on “The Political Economy of AI,” receiving $5,000 from Cornell Global Hubs. This grant supports a collaboration with researchers at the University of...