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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.


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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.

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