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.
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.