Charles Brooks
Architecture in Music: a photographic journey inside musical instruments
An invitation from the Chagrin Valley Camera Club
The Chagrin Valley Camera Club is hosting Charles Brooks for “Architecture in Music,” a fascinating photographic journey inside musical instruments. His extraordinary images reveal hidden worlds most of us would never imagine. This promises to be a presentation you won’t want to miss!
Charles will join us live from Australia on Tuesday, November 3, at 7 PM Eastern via Zoom.
Please feel free to share this invitation with your club. We’d be delighted to have you all join us.
Registration is required and space is limited, with places available on a first come, first served basis. I encourage everyone to register early.
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Register on Zoom
Registration is handled by the Chagrin Valley Camera Club through Zoom. Space is limited and places go first come, first served.
The talk
What looks like an immense chamber might be the inside of a violin. A seemingly endless passageway could belong to a piano.
“Architecture in Music” reveals the hidden interiors of musical instruments, turning small spaces into worlds of unexpected scale. The photographs expose craftsmanship, old repairs, textures and structures that normally stay out of sight.
Charles works with specialist medical endoscopes, carefully controlled light, and techniques that combine multiple exposures for depth and detail, producing images that challenge our sense of perspective. For photographers, it’s an invitation to reconsider familiar subjects: what might we find by changing our viewpoint, or by looking where others rarely look?
About Charles
Charles Brooks brings a musician’s understanding to a photographer’s eye. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he spent more than two decades as a professional cellist, playing in concert halls around the world, before turning to photography full time in 2016.
His photographs show instruments from a perspective even their players rarely see, and his work has appeared in National Geographic, Der Spiegel, The Telegraph and Die Zeit. In “Architecture in Music,” his two creative worlds meet. See more at charlesbrooks.info.
From the series
Stradivarius violin, Steinway grand piano, Klaus Jacobsen lute, Zildjian cymbals, Martin D35 guitar, St Mark’s pipe organ. All photos © Charles Brooks.