Bond Street — © Brian Rose Bond and Lafayette Streets — © Brian Rose In the grip of a debt crisis brought on by Tea Party economic terrorism, New York appears placid at the start of the weekend–on the surface.  One imagines the agitated garden party conversations  out in the Hamptons among the captains of […]

I will be teaching a class this fall at ICP focused on photographing the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Each student will pick a subject, theme, or geographical area–I plan to shoot the Bowery with a 4×5 camera–and then we will design and print a book of the images using Blurb. This will be the […]

E9th Street — © Brian Rose E13th Street — © Brian Rose Walking through the East Village on a sultry evening.  

Charleton Street — © Brian Rose Charleton Street — © Brian Rose Two photographs made 30 seconds apart.

Sarah D. Roosevelt Park — © Brian Rose We visited the New Museum block party in Sarah Roosevelt park yesterday–despite the continuing heat. While I talked to David Mulkins, the director of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, an organization trying to save the historical character of the Bowery, Brendan, my son, busied himself creating a […]

M Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose On the Williamsburg Bridge — © Brian Rose Morning walk. Our Lady of Consolation and white bronco.

Steve Katzenbaum of CNN radio and Brian Rose Yesterday I was interviewed by CNN radio for a piece they are doing about the loss of the Twin Towers on the city’s skyline and about the rapidly rising 1 WTC tower, which is intended to replace, visually and symbolically, the iconic presence of the former skyscrapers. […]

From E25th Street — © Brian Rose Finished several photo shoots and then got out of town to join up with former members of the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums performing at the annual Deep River muster in Connecticut. Some of us have a hard time keeping up our musical chops and remembering all the […]

East New York — © Brian Rose I spent the day in East New York photographing a new low income apartment building. It’s in a neighborhood of single family homes and other new apartment buildings. The big housing blocks that East New York is known for are some distance away. Not that many years ago, […]

JR image on Essex Street — © Brian Rose Go here for more JR in New York.

Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street, Washington, D.C. — © Brian Rose I stayed in Washington with my family at a hotel on Dupont Circle. We walked up 18th Street through Adam’s Morgan, an ethnically diverse area I lived in briefly in the ’70s. Afterward, Brendan, my 12 year old son, insisted that we return […]

Mt. Vernon, Virginia — © Brian Rose I drove north from Richmond to Washington, D.C. with my family. It’s the 4th of July weekend, so no escaping the crowds in D.C. We rented bikes and cycled down the Potomac to Mt. Vernon, George Washington’s plantation. It’s about 18 miles, the terrain not too difficult, but […]

Richmond, Virginia — © Brian Rose I went to Williamsburg, Virginia for the third time in the past month and half to see my father who is recovering from surgery. He will be 90 on July 16, and it seems pretty clear that he will make it. On the way north, traveling with my wife […]

Houston Street — © Brian Rose Fleeing town for the holiday weekend.

East New York, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose News–Kodak Portra in 4×5 is finally in stock. I can now get back to the view camera work.

WTC montage — © Brian Rose In my book, WTC, I used cropped close-ups of the facade of the Twin Towers to break up the different groupings , or chapters, of photographs. I found them intriguing as images on their own–abstract, but clearly identifiable. One of them shows a strip of blue, which is the […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Williamsburg–Brooklyn that is.