Bryan was a successful commercial photographer from 1983 through 2003 shooting both corporate annual reports and advertising campaigns whose clients included American Express, Kodak, UPS, Phillips and Citibank. In addition, his work has been selected seven different times by Communication Arts Photography Annual and by Print Magazine four times and was also awarded the prestigious New York Art Directors Gold Award. Since 2003, he has written 12 photography books, in nine different languages and he is best known in the photographic community as the photographer/writer of "Understanding Exposure", which has sold more than one-million copies world-wide, as well as the author of the best-selling titles, "Learning to See Creatively" and "Understanding Color".