The first time I stepped inside Andrew Brooks' images was at an exhibition of his work at Urbis. They were large lightbox mounted duratrans type prints that had a depth and mystery to them that stopped me stone-still in my tracks. They were photographs from the top of Manchester - view from the Palace theatre iirc - to the hidden catacombs below the city.
The way the images had been created with impossible angles and HDR like processing completely blew me away.
I kept an eye on his work and when the Hive in Manchester showed his larger exhibition New Worlds last year, I turned up to witness again the strange panoramas and odd juxtapostions in his photography, this time his camera showed vistas worldwide.
In the mill where I have my studio, there are currently a number of prints by Andrew being shown as part of the Guild 2012.
The address is in a post below, the details of opening times and contact info is here : http://oxheysmillstudios.com/
If you're in Preston for the Guild celebrations you really don't have an excuse not to be caught up in his work.
