Born in Virginia, Brian Rose moved to New York City in 1977 to attend Cooper Union. There he studied with photographer Joel Meyerowitz, documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, and conceptual artist Hans Haacke. In 1980, he and fellow Cooper graduate Edward Fausty photographed the Lower East Side of Manhattan, supported by a New York State CAPS grant, and later participated in a photographic survey of the Financial District, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. ?? In 1985 Rose began photographing the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. That project has continued to the present, chronicling the fall of the Wall and the rebuilding of Berlin. His book The Lost Border, The Landscape of the Iron Curtain was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2004.?? From 1993 to 2007 Rose lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In 1998 he photographed the Mercatorplein neighborhood with its immigrant population and Amsterdam School architecture. That work, supported by the Netherlands Architecture Fund, was published as Mercatorplein, Image of a World in Amsterdam.?? In the mid-2000s Rose began re-photographing the Lower East Side, documenting the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, and maintaining a photography weblog. In 2012 his book Time and Space on the Lower East Side was published by Golden Section Publishers. In 2014 he published Metamorphosis: Meatpacking district 1985 + 2013, a long-term exploration of urban transformation.?? Rose's images have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he is represented by Dillon Gallery in Chelsea. He lives in New York City with his wife, urban planner Renée Schoonbeek, and his teenage son Brendan.