Wild derelict land less than a mile from city centre, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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Grey cloud gathering above palisade fence enclosing vacant land on the fringes of London
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Three wheelie bins and two gasometers, Birmingham
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Workman's boot sprouting weeds, abandoned on site of former industrial plant, West Midlands.
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Seafront and dog, New Brighton, Wallasey.
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Rusting goal posts in public playing field coated with daisies, North Cheshire
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Petrochemical storage tanks beyond trees, North Cheshire
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View of Mersey Estuary through porthole inside rusy metal enclosure, Liverpool
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Walkway ascending from underpass, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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Imported Great Wall Steed pick-up trucks from China, Queenborough, Kent.
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View of Mersey Estuary from abandoned dock, Liverpool, Merseyside
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Point of Ayr, Flintshire, Wales
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CCTV camera at the boundary of a large industrial complex hidden from view, Teesside
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Temporary office on abandoned industrial site, North Cheshire
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Two gantries. Photographed in Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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Roadside dysfunction. Industrial estate in Wolverhapton, West Midlands
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Empty freight containers parked in marshalling yard
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Electricity generating substation, Keadby, North Lincolnshire
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Field with abandoned plastic bollards, Four Ashes, Staffordshire
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Abandoned and boarded-up factory, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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Metal door in wall of industrial building, Garston, Liverpool
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Abandoned railway tracks, Teesside
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River Dee, upstream by a few miles from the Dee Estuary, near the Wales/England border
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River Dee, upstream by a few miles from the Dee Estuary, near the Wales/England border
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Mainly landscape work, occasionally interiors, mainly in areas where urban sprawl, industrial architecture, artefacts of infrastructure, retail and recreational spaces, derelict and dysfunctional structures, traces of human presence and activity, and the ever present and often encroaching natural world, meet in strange alliances. Preferred lighting is ordinary daylight.
The project is a follow on of earlier work largely done in square format and/or black and white, and some of these earlier series are/will be included on this site. This may constitute one large series or project. Or possibly may not.
Most pictures are for sale as images for commercial or editorial licensing (mainly from Getty Images) and/or as prints which are sold via reputable art sellers. Click on the query sign for info about each picture.
After some years working in education and as a part-time artist and film-maker (with one award), Robert Brook has worked principally in still photography since 1990. In the early years he exhibited in many group exhibitions including a Serpentine Summer show (1977) and work was bought for various collections including the Contemporary Art Society. He then abandoned personal work for a period to concentrate purely on selling to editorial and commercial markets, adopting a documentary style, and specialising in industry, environmental issues and night photography, only recently returning to a more experimental approach.
Has studied at Derby College of Art, Goldsmiths - University of London, and the Polytechnic of North London
Representation: Gallerique, Getty Images, London Art, Science Photo Library. Collections of work in numerous editorial, press and commercial agencies around the world.
Has been commissioned/purchased by, published/exhibited in:
BBC, Black Rock, Bloomberg, Blue Circle (Lafarge), Brian Duffy, British Medical Journal, Candid Arts, Carnegie Orr, Centuar Communications, Chadwick House Group, CIPFA, Contemporary Art Society, Corbis, Corriere della Sera, Cambridge University Press, Daily Express, Design Group Ltd, Discovery Museum, Dorling Kindersley, Edco, Elsevier, Environment Agency, Environmental Times, ERF Lorries, Evans Brothers, Evening Standard, Funny or Die, Gallerique, Geographical Magazine, Goldsmiths, Green Futures Magazine, Greenpeace Communications, Grundy Art Gallery, GWS Interactive, Hachette, HarperCollins, Haymarket, Hearst Communications, Heinmann, Hodder, Institute of Physics, IO Donna, John Peel, La Croix, la Repubblica, Liberation, Lincoln Museum, London Art, Macmillan, McCann, Midland Group Gallery, New Scientist, NRC Media, Oldham Art Gallery, Open University, Oxford University Press, PE Magazine, Penguin Books, PH21 Gallery, Pocket Books, PHP Institute, RCNi, Reactions, Royal Society of Chemistry, RPS Group, SCI, Science Museum, Serpentine Gallery, Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Lancet, The Observer, The Times, Whalerock, Whitechapel Gallery, Zooid Pictures, and many others.
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