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. 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 Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. He trained as a silkscreen printer and print finisher after leaving school. 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. The Longest Way Round. UK: Overlapse, 2015. . Drivers in the 1980s. East London Photo Stories Book 6. London: Hoxton Mini Press, 2015. . The Corners. London: Hoxton Mini Press, 2018. . A History of the East End. France: Noveau Palais. 2024. .

Publication with others The Cut. London: Space, 2011. Photographs by Dorley-Brown, Jessie Brennan, and Daniel Lehan. Edited by Dorley-Brown.

Publications edited by Dorley-Brown The East End in Colour 1960-1980. London: Hoxton Mini Press, 2018. By David Granick. Edited and with an introduction by Dorley-Brown. . Edition of 3000 copies. Second edition.

Publications with contributions by Dorley-Brown Scarpe: Moda e Fantasia = Shoes: Fashion and Fantasy. Milan: Rizzoli, 1990. Edited by Colin McDowell and Manolo Blahnik. . With a preface by Blahnik. Photographers London: 1839-1994. London: Museum of London, 1995. Edited by Mike Seaborne. . Future Face: Image, Identity, Innovation. London: Profile; Wellcome Trust; Science Museum, 2003. By Sandra Kemp. . With contributions from Vicki Bruce and Alf Linney. Accompanied the Future Face exhibition at the Science Museum, October 2004 – February 2005. Face: The New Photographic Portrait. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. By William Ewing. / Faire faces: Le nouveau portrait photographique. France: Actes Sud, 2004. . Photography Reborn: Image Making in the Digital Era. New York City: Abrams, 2006. Edited by Jonathan Lipkin. . London Street Photography: 1860–2010. London: Museum of London; Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2011. . Selected from the Museum of London collection by Mike Seaborne and Anna Sparham. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museum. The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State. Marshgate, 2012. Edited by Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero-Guillamon. . Dorley-Brown contributes journal extracts. The Wick. Issue 3. London: See Studio, 2013. Edited by Marrero-Guillamon. Newspaper with supplement, "Picturing the Wick", by Dorley-Brown and Francesca Weber-Newth.

Films by Dorley-Brown BBC in the East End 1958–1973 (2007), for BBC / British Film Institute. Edited by Dorley-Brown. 3 hours long set of 2 DVDs and 40 page booklet with an essay by Tony White. Made on a BBC Creative Archive placement at the BBC Creative Archive Licence Group. 15 Seconds Part 3 (2015), for Wellcome Collection.

Collections Dorley-Brown's work is held in the following public collections: Museum of London, London. Richard and Ronay Menschel Library, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York: The Longest Way Round book.