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Junction of Round Croft and Field Street, Willenhall, West Midlands, April 2015

Wolverhampton Street, Willenhall, West Midlands, April 2015

Ruins of former brewery, Wolverhampton, September 2013

Fowlers Park, Wolverhampton, October 2013

Surburban street seen through gap in trees, Willenhall, April, 2015.

Terrace houses and bungalows, Willenhall, West Midlands, April 2015

Cxwell Avenue, Wolverhampton, April 2015

Industrial units and gasworks at night, Sandwell, West Midlands, UK, April 2015

Power lines passing over scrub land, Cannock, Staffordshire, September 2013

Ocker Hill electricirty substation, Sandwell, West Midlands, April 2015

Moxley Park, Darlaston, West Midlands, April 2014.

Beneath A41 flyover, Ocker Hill, Sandwell, West Midlands, September 2017

Darlaston Road, Sandwell, West Midlands, November 2002

Roadside and empty plot of land. Photographed in Willenhall, West Midlands, September, 2013

Smoking shelter in corner of car park, Willenhall, West Midlands, September 2013

Empty car park, Willenhall, West Midlands, September 2013

Yellow door and industrial shed, Willenhall, West Midlands, September 2013

Yellow door. Photographed in Wednesfield, West Midlands

Site of former steelworks, Wednesbury, West Midlands, April 2015

Telecommunications mast, Sandwell, West Midlands, October 2002

Beneath A41 flyover, Ocker Hill, Sandwell, West Midlands, September 2017

Brownfield land, Walsall, West Midlands, October 2013.

Street, illuminated by streetlight, running through empty land, formerly a housing estate, Walsall, West Midlands, 2014

Street, illuminated by streetlight, running through empty land, formerly a housing estate, Walsall, West Midlands, 2014

Post with step-down transformer, Deeside, Flintshire, Wales, September 2013

Access road to industrial park,Telford, Shropshire, August 2013

Chain hotel, Teford, Shropshire, 2003

Works entrance, Telford, Shropshire, August 2013

Single track railway crossing road, Deeside, Flintshire, Wales, September 2013

Weighbridge Road, Shotton, Deesside, North Wales, 2001

Road junction on Wrexham industrial estate, Wales, March 2012

Locked gates of industrial compound with 'no entry' sign, Wrexham, Wales, March 2012

Parked trucks at night, Wrexham industrial estate, Wales, March 2012

Switched-off streetlights on industrial estate, Wrexham, Wales, March 2012

Pathway through scrubland at the fringes of Wrexham, Wales

Hortonwood 50, Telford, Shropshire, August 2013

Vacant land, Speke, Liverpool, October 2010

Fence guarding vacant land, Garston, Liverpool, April 2015.

Entrance to factory at night, Garston, Liverpool, April 2015

Derelict industrial building, Wirral, Merseyside, November 2010

Garston docks, Liverpool, April 2015

Slipway and beach, New Brighton, Merseyside, September 2012.

Utility building surrounded by green fence, Garston, Liverpool, April 2015

Sewage pumping station and beach, New Brighton, Wirral, 2012

Mersey Estuary looking across to Bootle docks, New Brighton, Wirral, 2012

Locked gate with wilderness beyond, Speke, Liverpool, 2010.

Ruins of former Littlewoods factory, Edge Lane, Liverpool, October 2011

Two No Entry signs, Liverpool, April 2015

Walkways next to the Mersey Estuary at night, Liverpool, April 2015

Locked gates and view of Liverpool on the far side of the Mersey, Birkenhead, Wirral, 2010

Oil refinery, Eastham, Merseyside, November 2010.

Chemical factory and pylon, Stockton-on-Tees, 2001

Clock tower and toilets on sea front, Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, 2008

The river Thames at night, view from Thurrock, Essex, to Swanscombe and Northfleet Kent, February 2013.

Stockyard, West Thurrock, Essex, February 2013

Detergent factory., West Thurrock, Essex, February 2013.

Rapeseed processing plant, Erith, Bexley, London, February 2013.

North side of the Thames, West Thurrock, Essex, February 2013

Detergent factory, West Thurrock, Essex, February 2013.

North side of the Thames. Photographed in West Thurrock, Essex, February 2013

Mobile phone base station, Erith, Bexley, London, February 2013

North side of the Thames, West Thurrock, Essex, February 2013.

Wharf on the north side of the Thames, West Thurrock, Essex, February 2013

Robert Brook: photographer, one time film maker, digital artist: had pictures exhibited in public galleries, purchased by public and private collections, worked on music album covers, won an award for film work before specializing in photojournalism and editorial photography for many years. Since 2012 have been working mainly on personal projects.



Projects:

London in the margins 1975 - 1990. Series of square format, mainly black and white photos of marginal areas and edgelands of London. First tranche exhibited at the the Serpentine gallery in 1977.

Pond 1975 - 1995. An ornamental garden and pond in Battersea Park depicted over time. A very personal project - one picture from the series was exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1985

Software project 1985 - 1992. Early involvement with computer graphics deploying complex geometrical forms.

Essex and Kent dumps 1989 - 1992. Landscape pictures of land and water under stress. Published/used worldwide. Followed this with similar work in the Black Country.

Night photography 2000 - 2002. Incorporated a series of black and white urban night photographs into a website display: UK Nights selected by Yahoo as a Pick of the Day.

35mm traditional street photography collection 1996 - 2004 in association with Photofusion. Observational, rather than subjective, mainly in Northern towns and cities. Widely published. Also featured in Mass Photography: Blackpool through the camera >

Night Photography 2010 - 2016. More night photography, but using digital rather than film cameras, and covering areas that are now known to be Red Wall. Pictures were acquired by Corbis Contemporary

Currently working on series of 3D digital images, intended for commercial use, employing surrealist visual tropes. For sale through Getty Images.


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The first time I did any outdoors night photography was back in the summer of 1989 in the fringes of East London. I was experimenting with a high resolution technical film using a medium format camera. I had intended dusk, but the light continued to fall, and it became night. There wasn't much to see where I was: just rows of sodium lights and then nothing, except the sound of the Thames. It struck me that you don't need much when you are photographing at night.

Then for a number of years I found myself working at night quite frequently, mainly doing work for publication, but also exploring my own themes. In particular I wanted to avoid the idea of night imagery as spectacle, a tendency of published work that I began to find boring, and instead see how a more pared down approach might allow things to reveal themselves.

Initially working with film, in 2010 I transferred to digital. Although film could have visual impact, I found digital was more conducive to maintaining a low key approach. Most of the work here is digital work done after 2010.


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