Philip Brookman is consulting curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, where he organized Dorothea Lange: Seeing People (2023–2024), Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 (2018–2019) and Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (2016–2017). He is currently working on an exhibition for the National Gallery about the connections between photography and the Black Arts Movement. Brookman was chief curator and curator of photography at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1993–2014), curator and director of programs at Washington Project for the Arts (1987–1992), curator at Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego (1984–1986), and curator at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1977–1983). He was a museum fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2020.