#chris dorley-brown

[federer7]

Sandringham-Road-Kingsland-High-Street-10.42am-11.37am. London. 15thJune 2009

Photo: Chris Dorley-Brown

[cosmonautroger]

Chris Dorley-Brown, London, 1986

[everydreamhome]

chris dorley-brown

laburnum court 1987

Kingsland estate

haggerston

kingsland estate

whiston road

hackney

london

uk

©chris dorley-brown

[smallvictories]

wentworth street 2020

petticoat lane market london england ©chris dorley-brown modrex.com

[anxiolotl]

a car driver in 1980s London, photographed by Chris Dorley-Brown (via Flashbak)

[toastistoasty]

vivienne westwood punkature collection 1982 photo by chris dorley-brown london fashion week

[victortsu]

Chris Dorley-Brown, East London street corners.

(via Surreal multiple exposed photographs of street corners in London’s East End look like oil paintings | Creative Boom)

[getparticulr]

The Corners by Chris Dorley

modrex.com

via British Journal of Photography

[dk-thrive]

There was something not right about them, maybe I meant the exact opposite: something too right, eerily ordinary.

There’s something not quite right about the photographs in Chris Dorley-Brown’s book “The Corners” (published by Hoxton Mini Press). The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there’s a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state. I’m referring not only to the people in the pictures; I’m also describing the effect induced in us, the people looking at them. And when I said there was something not right about them, maybe I meant the exact opposite: something too right, eerily ordinary...

People are rooted to the ground by the effort of ostensibly traversing it, as oddly static as the figures in Edward Hopper’s paintings. So the pictures look like records of a fully immersive street installation that, for those lucky enough to obtain tickets, offers the experience of being able to wander through a world in which time is stalled, isolating everyone else midstride, mid-phone call, midlife...

The sensed absence of time — the result, paradoxically, of an unusual amount of it being accumulated within each picture — is accentuated by another lack that deepens the enveloping aura of emptiness and, as a consequence, emphasizes the connection with the photographic past: no traffic, no congestion. In this world lacking vehicular transit — a result of shooting traffic-less interludes rather than having cars towed away after the fact, in postproduction — the “Chapel of Rest” on the corner of Vernon Road and High Road becomes a conveniently located destination and terminus. The figure loitering across from it looks like one of the living dead: the ghost of long exposures past, summoned into full tangibility. What’s this figure going to do? The question makes no sense. He doesn’t have the time.

~ By Geoff Dyer, from “How to Photograph Eternity” (NY Times, July 24, 2018)

[nowayzinedine]

Big Jack.

[federer7]

Woman in red MG Metro. Norton Folgate, EC2, London, 1987

Photo by Chris Dorley-Brown

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[hellohaters]

dee street 2015 / chris dorley-brown

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Photographer Chris Dorley-Brown

[nevver]

The Londonist, Chris Dorley-Brown