Bernauerstrasse — © Brian Rose Signs mounted along the path through the former no man’s land along Bernauer Strasse. When the wall first went up in 1961, it began as concrete blocks topped with barbed wire. Neighbors could still call out to one another over the wall. Here you can see them standing on ladders […]

LIchtgrenze — © Brian Rose Some 8,000 illuminated balloons mark the line of the former Berlin wall as it snaked through the center of the city. Here the “light border” passes over a foot bridge above train tracks heading toward the Fernsehturm (TV tower) in the distance. On the evening of November 9th, the balloons […]

Potsdamer Platz — © Brian Rose The wall once ran directly through Potsdamer Platz, and now a double row of cobblestones marks the trace of the outer wall through the mostly paved square. A series of wall slabs with exhibition photos and text in between are placed directly on the former borderline. The blue boxes […]

Bornholmer Strasse, Berlin — © Brian Rose My first day in Berlin in five years. I am here for the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin wall. I am adding to a project that began in 1985 when I traveled across Europe photographing the Iron Curtain including Berlin. Much building has occurred in […]

Professional photographer hard at work. Leaving this evening for Berlin to photograph the wall that no longer exists — that came down 25 years ago on November 9th. Will be using view camera and film rather than iPhone.

My 15 year old son Brendan had a school photography assignment to do this weekend — to make pictures of his family. When given the option to take painting or drawing, or architectural rendering, Brendan thought it would be “easier” to take photography, given that’s what his father does. We had a little time Saturday […]

Metamorphosis is on sale at the Friends of the High Line shop, both online and at their outdoor kiosk. Today, I did a quick box count of my inventory, and determined that I have 475 books left out of 1,000 printed. Over 50% sold since the book was released at the beginning of June.   […]

The Atlantic’s CityLab, a web journal about urban issues. An article about Metamorphosis, Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013, and an interview. This is one is definitely worth clicking through to. From the interview: Manhattan is now about the nexus of money, technology, and the arts. In the old days, you could come here without a […]

Under the High Line — © Brian Rose Building the Future of New York.    

Another article and interview. This one a British design and culture web magazine.    

End of summer musings, Hudson, New York. © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian Rose Above is the future home of the Marina Abramovic performance art center.    

In the middle of doing an exhibition at Dillon Gallery, and releasing my book about the Meatpacking District, I got a very special architectural photography assignment. The newly renovated Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. It’s one of the most awe inspiring buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, it was completed […]

For those who missed it, a few images of my exhibition last month at Dillon Gallery. Dillon Gallery exhibition, August 2014 — © Brian Rose

Williamsburg street scene — © Brian Rose Without comment  

10th Avenue and West 25th Street — © Brian Rose Along the High Line.    

Spoonbill and Sugartown book store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose New!!! — Brian Rose — Signed — Meatpacking Walked down the street yesterday and discovered my name in lights, or rather on a whiteboard.    

An interview in Joe Bonomo’s blog No Such Thing As Was. I want to engage and provoke, but not preach. I want people to overlay their own mental maps of the city onto mine, and in the process look at things differently, see things freshly, re-examine their relationship to the familiar. The story in these […]

Interview in Cool Hunting. Takeaway quote: But in 1985 you could stand alone in the middle of Washington Street surrounded by this all encompassing decrepitude, almost post-apocalyptic in its emptiness, and you’d find yourself saying, “This is fantastic. This is unreal.” There was a kind of perfection in that moment. But at the same time, […]