Wallasey
Exhibition: CICA Museum, Seoul, 23 August to 10 Sept 2023
Footfall
Exhibition: CICA Museum, Seoul, 23 August to 10 Sept 2023
Between States
Exhibition: CICA Museum, Seoul, 23 August to 10 Sept 2023
Wrong Turning
Exhibition: CICA Museum, Seoul, 23 August to 10 Sept 2023
Electricity Substation
Exhibition: Darkness, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, from July 8, 2023
The Long Road
Exhibitions:
Scene and Meaning, Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, 20-27 March 2023
Conceptual, Blank Wall Gallery 12-24 January 2024
Floaters
Exhibitions:
London Art Biennale 26-30 July 2023,
Scene and Meaning, Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, 20-27 March 2023
Paradoxical
Exhibition: Conceptual, Blank Wall Gallery, 12-24 January, 2024
Also published in Abridged 0_93: Terminus in connection with 2023 Belfast Photo Festival
Landscape Seascape
Exhibition: Form 2023, CICA Museum, Seoul, 1-19 November 2023
Coffee Break
Exhibition: Form 2023, CICA Museum, Seoul, 1-19 November 2023
The Sound of Water
Exhibition: Form 2023, CICA Museum, Seoul, 1-19 November 2023
Roadside Debris
Exhibition: Upside Down, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, 9 March - 1 April 2023
Junction of Round Croft and Field Street, Willenhall
Exhibition: Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, 17-29 March 2023
Garston, Merseyside
Exhibition: Charnia International Photo Festival, 3-9 August 2023
Suburban Play Area in Winter Rain
Exhibition: Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, 13-25 January 2023
May Bank Holiday Weekend, Wallasey
Exhibition: Street Photography, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, 13-25 January 2023
Hanging Coat
Exhibition: Portraits Beyond Faces, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, 21 September - 14 October 2023
Standing Feet
Exhibition: Portraits Beyond Faces, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, 21 September - 14 October 2023
Abandoned House in East London, from B&W film archive
Exhibition: PH21 Gallery, Budapest, 19 October - 11 November 2023
Ship in a Room, from B&W film archive
Exhibition: PH21 Gallery, Budapest, 19 October - 11 November 2023
Crash
Exhibition: Dolling up the Lens: Barbie, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, 14 November 2023 - 6 January 2024
Desolation
Exhibition: Dolling up the Lens: Barbie, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, 14 November 2023 - 6 January 2024
Billingham Manufacturing Plant
Exhibition: 2nd Athens B&W Photography Festival, February 2024
Group of Four, 2016.
Collection: Found concepts
Close-up, Wellington, Telford, 2022
Collection: Forever Square
Fingers crossed, 2013.
Collection: Found concepts
Pointing, 2013.
Collection: Found concepts
Business Park, Willenhall, 2011.
Collection: Forever Square
Abandoned Offices, Widnes, 2012.
Collection: Forever Square
Approaching Storm, 2014.
Collection: Made Pictures
Business Park, Willenhall, 2011.
Collection: Forever Square
Rear Exit, 2015.
Collection: Made Pictures
Project: Trouble in the Streets
Bus Shelter at Graythorpe, 2002.
Collection: Forever Square
Close-up, Wellington, Telford, 2022.
Collection: Forever Square
Landscape Seascape, 2021.
Collections: Made Pictures
Wolverhampton 2022
Collection: Ordinary Landscapes
Phone Mast with Stars, 2002.
Collection: Forever Square
A Bed (Unmade), 2008.
Collection: Found concepts
Couch with Leaves, 2020.
Collection: Found concepts
Between States, 2016
Collection: Made Pictures
Sound of Water, 2022
Collection: Made Pictures
Coffee Break, 2023
Collection: Made Pictures
Bus stop with trees, 2017
Collection: Found concepts
South London 2023
Collection: Ordinary Landscapes
Eastern Fringes of Derby, 2011
Collection: Forever Square
Urban Walkway, 2003
Collection: Forever Square
Wolverhampton 2022
Collection: Ordinary Landcapes
Abandoned Portable Office, Widnes, 2012
Collection: Forever Square
A Little Dystopia, 2023
Collection: Made Pictures
Project: Trouble in the Streets
Running man 2019
Collection: Made Pictures
Project: Trouble in the Streets
Telford 2022
Collection: Ordinary Landscapes
Power Lines and Flyover, Sandwell, 2017
Collection: Less Light
Yellow Door, 2013
Collection: Less Light
Abandoned Portable Office, Widnes, 2012
Collection: Forever Square
Misdirection, 2020
Collection: Found concepts
Orford 2022
Collection: Ordinary Landscapes
Street Corner in Woolwich, 1988
Collection: Forever Square
Garston, Liverpool, April 2015
Collection: Less Light
Wolverhampton 2023
Collection: Ordinary Landscapes
Route from multi-storey car park to shoppig mall
Robert Brook has worked with a number of media, principally photography, but also experimental and documentary film-making and video, CGI and website creation. After being engaged in 16mm film production for several years, and since 1990, he has worked in editorial photography, specialising in social issues and science. He has previously studied at Derby College of Art, Goldsmiths College and Polytechnic of North London. His work has been published widely around the world, with bylines in many major publications, exhibited in museums/private galleries in several countries and held in a number of collections, including two museum collections.
Most of my photographic work is, in one way or another, environmental, whether that simply means attempts to evoke the facticity of particular environments, or depict the look of things impacted upon by human activity, especially industrial activity.
Back in the late 1970s I began taking photographs in London Streets, mainly in South London near where I lived, but rather than pursue the aesthetic of street theatre, it was the look of the streets themselves that was of interest. I then began to explore undeveloped areas of East London. One thing that interested me here was the way nature asserted its presence against a backdrop of decaying infrastructure – abandoned sewage and water treatment works, dysfunctional waterways, ageing factories and warehouses, abandoned homes. To some extent the point of all this was that there wasn't any point, except that nobody else seemed to be documenting it.
I had had several skirmishes with gallery walls (mainly the Serpentine), bemoaning the lack of impact small monochrome images had on large white spaces, but unable to see any other end use, I continued quietly while pursuing other career options. Then in 1990, I had a picture published in the Guardian of plastic debris along a bank of the Thames. This helped to precipitate a change of direction in favour of visual journalism, since when I have had work published regularly, both in the UK and around the world.
Over the past two decades, photography has, bit by bit, been transformed from a rather pure, but narrow, craft into something much more expansive, and without any obvious boundaries or rules. Now we can make, rather than take pictures, in a way that was never really possible in the days of darkroom printing and manipulation.