Chris Dorley-Brown
Chris Dorley-Brown is a British documentary photographer and filmmaker, based in the East End of London. Since 1984, Dorley-Brown has been creating a photographic archive of the London Borough of Hackney. Since 1993 he has collaborated with other people on a variety of projects in radio, print, cinema, television, Internet and architecture. His photography books include "The Longest Way Round" (2015), "Drivers in the 1980s" (2015) and "The Corners" (2018). His films include "BBC in the East End 1958–1973" (2007) and "15 Seconds Part 3" (2015). Life and work. Dorley-Brown grew up on the  south coast of England. He trained as a silkscreen printer and print finisher after leaving school. Later he joined the photographer Red Saunders' studio as a camera assistant. He went freelance in 1984, creating a photographic archive of the London Borough of Hackney where he lived and worked, which he has continued to do. "Largely self-taught, his cultural education was formed in east London in the late seventies, against a backdrop of strongly polarised political conflict and change. His influences are shaped by memory, both personal and those of others." In 1991, he expanded into filmmaking and other activities  associated with burgeoning new technologies. Since 1993 Dorley-Brown has collaborated with other people of various creative disciplines, as well as groups and individuals in the public sphere, on a variety of projects in radio, print, cinema, television, Internet and architecture. Collections. Dorley-Brown's work is held in the following public collections: