Promenade and beach, Rhyl, North Wales.
Steps leading to blocked-off entrance, Dudley, West Midlands.
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View of Mersey Estuary through porthole inside rusy metal enclosure, Liverpool.
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Seafront and dog, New Brighton, Wallasey.
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Three wheelie bins and two empty gasometers, Birmingham.
Sea of thistles next to gas holders , Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
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Two gantries, Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
Overgrown marshalling yard, Stockton-on-Tees.
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View of ConocoPhillips oil refinery, South Killingolme, North Lincolnshire,
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Petrochemical storage tanks beyond trees, North Cheshire
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Rusting goal posts in public playing field coated with daisies, North Cheshire
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Sea front, Rhyl, North Wales.
Imported Great Wall Steed pick-up trucks from China, Queenborough, Kent.
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Electricity generating substation, Keadby, North Lincolnshire.
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Temporary office on abandoned industrial site, North Cheshire.
Metal fence with old spiders webs, Ocker Hill, Sandwell.
Close-up of wire mesh fence with gas holders beyond, Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
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Bus shelter in new business park, West Midlands.
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Lost boot on derelict land, Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
fragments of paint on old wall beneath bridge, Wolverhampton
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Run-down industrial estate, Garston, Merseyside.
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Dock Road, Greenfield, North Wales.
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CCTV camera at the boundary of a large industrial complex hidden from view, Teesside.
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Liquified petroleum gas terminal and storage depot, Canvey Island, Essex.
Orford Ness, former Cold War weapons research site, Suffolk
Bouncy castle, Wallasey, Merseyside.
Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside.
Small Heath Bridge, Birmingham.
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Industrial wasteland, Teesside.
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Site of abandoned steel works, Teesside
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Window, side wall of factory, Stoke-on-Trent
Lorry park, Telford
Aging industrial infrastructure, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
New Brighton beach, Wallasey, Merseyside
Bouy floating in the River Tees, Middlesbrough, Teesside.
River Dee, upstream by a few miles from the Dee Estuary, near the Wales/England border
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Facade of office block in the Dudley, the West Midlands.
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View of Mersey Estuary from abandoned wharf, Liverpool, Merseyside.
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Point of Ayr, Flintshire, Wales.
Tall pylon carrying power lines across the Great Ouse, Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
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Irish sea seen from Wallasey, Merseyside.
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.
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 has 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, and some pictures appeared there in two subsequent exhibitions
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. Some work featured in the exhibition: Mass Photography: Blackpool through the camera.
Night Photography 2010 - 2016. More night photography, but using digital rather than film, in mixed suburban / industrial areas. Pictures were acquired by Corbis Contemporary
Currently working on a series of 3D digital images, intended for commercial use, employing surrealist visual tropes, available through Getty Images.
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