Biography

Brian Burd, formerly Photo Curator at the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library and Museum Curator for Old Mission Santa Barbara. Brian has had a varied and exciting career. He worked on a car assembly line in Michigan in his college days, he’s worked as a photographer for several newspapers and worked for the Santa Cruz Island Foundation.

After his time at the Santa Cruz Island Foundation, Brian worked at the Archive-Library as Photo Curator and was instrumental in creating order out of disorder. He helped envision and develop our photo digitization and cataloguing project.