Fantastic Fictional Cities Spliced from 100s of Real Images

Andrew Brooks approaches a still image as a director would a movie, shooting frames and scenes then splicing them together to create hybrid masterpieces. The results blend fact and fiction; real times and places are recombined into unique and visionary new worlds. They are a reminder, too, that photography is inherently perspectival – truth in images remains always relative.

“Andrew’s creative process often results in capturing hundreds of images to create a complete work. Then, a meticulously developed sequence of cut, paste and rebuilding, moulding a new scene from his own vividly re-imagined viewpoint that is consistent, yet also a parallel with that of the perceived reality it represents. The images that emerge depict starkly beautiful urban scenes, empty but for the hollowed-out shells of buildings; cities suspended in the stars, imagined urban environments and serene pastoral scenes of the British countryside, seemingly real and at the same time untruthful in their vivid beauty.”