Brian Rose

Born in Virginia, Brian Rose moved to New York City in 1977 to attend Cooper Union.

In 1980, he and fellow Cooper graduate Edward Fausty photographed the Lower East Side of Manhattan, supported by a New York State CAPS grant, and later participated in a photographic survey of the Financial District, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 1985 Rose began photographing the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. That project has continued to the present, chronicling the fall of the Wall and the rebuilding of Berlin. His book The Lost Border, The Landscape of the Iron Curtain was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2004.

From 1993 to 2007 Rose lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In 1998 he photographed the Mercatorplein neighborhood with its immigrant population and Amsterdam School architecture. That work, supported by the Netherlands Architecture Fund, was published as Mercatorplein, Image of a World in Amsterdam.

Since the mid-2000s Rose has focused on a series of New York based projects. He re-photographed the Lower East Side and the Meatpacking District, and he documented the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. In 2012 his book Time and Space on the Lower East Side was published (sold out). in 2014, Metamorphosis, Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013, and in 2016, WTC.

Most recently, Rose has photographed Atlantic City and the legacy of Donald Trump. That work will be published in the Spring of 2019 by Circa Press.

Rose's images have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lives in New York with his wife, urban planner Renée Schoonbeek.