THE BROOKS PRESS OF WIRKSWORTH by Chris Brooks
Published by The Brooks Press (Est. 1898)
This, the first publication by photographer Chris Brooks, revives and re-imagines his own family's publishing house, The Brooks Press, some forty years after its closure.
For almost ten years Brooks has been returning to his childhood home in Derbyshire to photograph the land and research the story of his family's printing press, a business which he knew very little about due to the death of his father when he was a teenager.
An imprint founded in 1898 by his great grandfather, F.W. Brooks, The Brooks Press published a wide range of material from travel guides and poetry to books on self-improvement. It finally closed its doors in the early 1970s, having passed from father to son for three generations, winding up just before Brooks was born.
By employing a mixture of exquisitely composed, atmospheric, large format colour portraits and landscapes combined with archival fragments and pages of letterpress, Chris Brooks examines the pull of history and the complicated nature of belonging and family.
By doing so, he draws our attention to the constantly changing meaning of what it is to be 'in' and 'of' England. The Brooks Press of Wirksworth is thus a timely meditation on changing notions of nationhood, identity and the power of place.
The Brooks Press of Wirksworth, the publication that relaunches The Brooks Press, is available to purchase as a trade edition, special edition and as a collectors edition.
Design By Modern Activity
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Title
The Brooks Press of Wirksworth
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Author / Editor
Chris Brooks
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Publisher
The Brooks Press
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Pages
135
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Dimensions
245 x 295 mm
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Format
Hardcover
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Year
2026
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