Brian Rose is a photographer based in New York City. He graduated from Cooper Union in 1979, and shortly afterwards began photographing the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In 1985 he began photographing the former Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. That work has been published as the "Lost Border, The Landscape of the Iron Curtain."

For 15 years, Rose lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands where he photographed the periphery of the city and documented the neighborhood Mercatorplein with its Amsterdam School architecture and changing ethnic population. The latter was published as "Mercatorplein: Image of a World in Amsterdam."

Rose has continued to photograph Berlin with a focus on the former border zone, and his Blurb book "Berlin: In From the Cold" received an honorable mention in the Photography Book Now competition in 2009. His photographs have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.