Born in Virginia, Brian Rose moved to New York in 1977 to attend Cooper Union. In 1980 he photographed the Lower East Side, and in 1985 he began an extended project photographing the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall. He has produced 10 books and his work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His most recent book Monument Avenue, is a documentation of the last days of the Confederate statues in Richmond, Virginia. He is currently working on a new project, Last Stop on this Train, which documents the neighborhoods around the ends of all of the subway lines in New York. Last Stop will be published by Circa Press and release is expected in March 2025.