Big Sandy Ranch gate — © Brian Rose We arrived just before dark to the Big Sandy Ranch in the desolate Mars-like landscape of Wyoming on the western slope of the Wind River Range. Fires burning far to the west produced a haze that reddened as the sun went down. The ranch is located at […]

Somewhere in Wyoming — © Brian Rose I haven’t posted anything for about a week because I’ve been here (see above). No internet, almost no phone, no paved roads, only a couple of hours of electricity a day. Despite that I managed to keep my camera battery charged as well as take a few photographs […]

Meatpacking District David  (Eladio de Mora (dEmo) and Luca Missoni) — © Brian Rose   N6th Street, Williamsburg — © Brian Rose Intersections of art and commerce.

Richmond Terrace, Staten Island — © Brian Rose This I have to come back to with my view camera. The group of figures is based on a much seen photograph, and the signage is from an adjacent farmer’s market.    

9/11 Memorial on Staten Island — © Brian Rose My wife and headed down to Staten Island Saturday afternoon to take part in the latest installment of stillspotting nyc, a series of art projects dealing with the urban environment sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum. This one, called Telettrofono, was an audio walking tour of the […]

North 6th and Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Amsterdam waterfront — © Brian Rose The last photographs from my recent trip to Amsterdam. These were taken along the waterfront of the city on the Ij, once an inlet of the Zuider Zee, now an inland waterway connecting to the North Sea and the Rhein River. Although little new construction is underway in Amsterdam […]

On my last day in Amsterdam the weather improved and I was able to get out with the view camera. I picked up where I left off five years ago in Ijburg on the edge of the city. The view then was of mostly empty landfill–it is now densely built. But it still feels detached […]

Just arrived back in New York after 10 days in the Netherlands. Two quick visual anecdotes from Amsterdam. Amstel, near the Blauwbrug, Amsterdam  — © Brian Rose   Prinsengracht, Amsterdam — © Brian Rose    

Review in Photo-Eye Magazine After four days on the island of Texel on the coast of the Netherlands, I am now in Amsterdam. Day before yesterday we had a book party for my Dutch friends and Kickstarter backers. It took place in a beautiful house in the canal district near the Rijksmuseum, and we had […]

Texel, The Netherlands – © Brian Rose Uh oh. After a couple of decent days, the weather has deteriorated. This is the watery view out of the picture window of our house in Den Hoorn at the south end of Texel on the North Sea coast. Tomorrow we head for Amsterdam. The Slufter, Texel, The […]

Texel – © Brian Rose Despite a less than stellar forecast, the weather stayed beautiful all day, and I took my 4×5 camera for a four hour trek through the dunes that stand between the North Sea and the polder on the inland side of Texel. Left alone, the island would be a narrow arc […]

Den Hoorn, The Netherlands – © Brian Rose It’s been five years since I was last in the Netherlands. I lived in Amsterdam for almost 15 years, traveling back and forth to New York as needed for work. We’re on vacation visiting my wife’s parents on the island of Texel on the North Sea coast. […]

Chelsea Market – © Brian Rose Walking through the Chelsea Market the other day I enjoyed seeing Gregg Segal’s show Enactments, images of Civil War re-enactors and people who work as super hero characters. The images are a wry look at American culture–I particularly like the Civil War images, in which authentically uniformed soldiers seem […]

My interview with the Daily Beast about Time and Space on the Lower East Side. It’s been an interesting process acting as distributor and promoter of the book. I’ve enjoyed meeting people and talking about the book, but the legwork not so much. My assistant Chris Gallagher and I have managed to get the book […]

N7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose   Rockaway Beach, Queens — © Brian Rose New York sizzles.

Tompkins Square Park basketball courts in 1980 (4×5) from Time and Space on the Lower East Side © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty Throughout the 80s and the early 90s I was regular at the pick-up basketball games on the courts near Avenue B and 10th Street in Tompkins Square Park. I played quite a bit on […]

  EV Grieve, the popular East Village based blog, has run an interview with me. It includes my thoughts about photographing the Lower East Side as well as my take on the neighborhood today. From the interview: People don’t understand that in 1980 the LES was hanging on by a thread, every night the sirens […]