Almere Buiten  (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose I’ve been scanning my Amsterdam on Edge negatives, pictures of the periphery of Amsterdam taken during the 15 years I lived in the Netherlands. Most of the prints I have of that work were made conventionally in the darkroom, and […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Mast Brothers Chocoate shop window — © Brian Rose Heading out in the morning to take my son Brendan to school. The globe in the window of Mast Brothers Chocolate across the street from our building was glowing. That’s our building reflected in the window.

Houston and Bowery, the President on his way to Cooper Union — © Brian Rose One of the most significant contributors to this recession was a financial crisis as dire as any we’ve known in generations. And that crisis was born of a failure of responsibility – from Wall Street to Washington – that brought […]

Grand and Eldridge Streets — © Brian Rose Just over a week ago there was a fire in two buildings on Grand between Eldridge and Forsythe, about five blocks away from my studio on Stanton Street. It was one of the worst fire in years in New York City–seven alarms–killing one and routing two hundred […]

I have now linked my Berlin project–Berlin: In From the Cold–to my main website. The project covers the Wall, it’s demise, and the gradual re-emergence  of a new city overlaid onto the often dark history of the old. Some of the photographs were originally included in the Lost Border, but most have never before been […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Ben’s Pizza at McDougal and W3rd Street — © Brian Rose Back when I was hanging out in folk clubs in the late ’70s and early ’80s, I survived on two basic food groups, falafel and pizza. Ben’s was and is a small pizza joint located–in those days–equidistant between Folk City and the Speakeasy, two […]

Although I was quite busy in San Francisco shooting five David Baker housing projects, and the arrival of my family for a week’s sightseeing only made things busier, I did eventually find time to see some photography at SFMOMA. There was lots to see there, but a couple of unexpected moments elsewhere seem more significant […]

Clarion Alley, the Mission, San Francisco — © Brian Rose Still sifting through my snapshots from the recent trip to San Francisco. Am hard at work on the computer finishing up the four architectural projects I photographed.

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco — © Brian Rose Green roof of the science museum in Golden Gate Park designed by Renzo Piano.

More random views from San Francisco. The Mission — © Brian Rose South of Market (SOMA) — © Brian Rose Sam Jordan’s Barbeque, Bayview-Hunters Point — © Brian Rose

I’m back in New York after a wonderful, but busy trip to San Francisco. I Fedexed the 4×5 film ahead to my lab here, so the pictures were ready to work on when I arrived. I will be chained to my computer for several days. Here are a few random views made with the digital […]

David Baker house, the Mission, San Francisco — © Brian Rose My wife Renee and son Brendan stand in front of David Baker’s house on Shotwell Street in the Mission. On the street side, the house retains much of its original facade, but Baker’s intervention is clearly visible on the ground floor. An office entrance […]

Shotwell Street — © Brian Rose Staying in the Mission in San Francisco in an apartment in architect David Baker’s house, a Victorian converted into a sheltered oasis in this sometimes rough edged neighborhood. One block may be full of beautiful houses with lushly flowering landscapes, while another is made up of warehouses and car […]

Oakland, California — © Brian Rose In the Bay Area one more day.

Oakland, California — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Oakland, California — © Brian Rose Near one of the projects I am photographing.