Thursday 9 September 7:00pm via Zoom
Tonight’s speaker Chris Dorley Brown grew up on the south coast of England and trained as a print finisher in Soho after leaving school before joining photographer Red Saunders studio as a camera assistant in 1981. After a variety of jobs including paparazzi/nightclub photography and portraits of business people, Dorley Brown set up his own Hackney studio in 1984 and began documenting social and civic aspects of the borough where he still resides. His cultural education was formed in east London in the late seventies, against a backdrop of polarised political conflict and changes. In the late 1980s he undertook photographic projects focussing on social housing and Hackney’s hospitals creating a unique record of patient treatment procedures.
Since 1993 Dorley Brown has collaborated with other people of various creative disciplines, writers, film & theatre makers and live performers on a variety of projects in radio, print, cinema, television, Internet and architecture, winning the Prix Italia in 2005 for sound editing for radio drama. In 2006-7 he was appointed artist in residence at the BBC film and radio archive re-animating & re-presenting long forgotten current affairs programmes made in Londons east end from the 1960s and 70s. Dorley Brown has published 5 books, including editing and devising an occasional series with others photographers archives most notably with the work of David Granick. His most well known monograph “The Corners” was published by Hoxton MiniPress in 2018. Currently he is completing a book with Overlapse which covers events of the last five years. His work is regularly featured in The Guardian , Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times and Time Magazine.
Chris Dorley Brown’s work is held in the collections of the Museum of London and both the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library and the George Eastman Museum in New York. He is represented by the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco & The Photographers’ Gallery here in London. Links to many works contributed to by our guest and including his films can be found on his Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dorley-Brown
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