Artist Research: Andrew Brooks

         Andrew Brooks is a Manchester based photographer who seeks to portray the world in all its natural and architectural forms through a series of panoramic images. Brooks experiments with his photographs from multiple perspectives and different placements within the same frame to create the best panoramic view of the nature and cityscapes he captures. He states that his objective is not to capture the imagine in one shot but to collect as much detail in one image and then piece the various images together. He spends hours perfecting these photographs, combining at least forty, sometimes hundreds of individual images to construct the perfect picture. Brooks explains that he uses his photography almost as a way of traveling, providing a new perspective for how he views the world. In pictures of New York and downtown Manhattan, he states that we rarely find photographs that accurately depict the immensity of the geography. He comments that in one photograph he increased the size of different objects between thirty and fifty percent to emphasize the architectural splendor of the frame that would otherwise go unnoticed. Detail is crucial to his photographs and Brooks takes pride in meticulously piecing together his works of art.