Press Release
Architecture in Music
Contact: Charles Brooks
Phone: +61 430 042 094
Email: photos@charlesbrooks.info
Architecture in Music
Photographer Charles Brooks reveals the hidden beauty inside rare musical instruments through striking imagery. Using specialist medical probe lenses and advanced imaging techniques, Brooks captures these unseen spaces with unprecedented sharpness. His intricate process blends hundreds of frames, rendering the interiors as vast, detailed rooms—showing tool marks, centuries-old repairs, and the hidden architecture within.
Brooks selects instruments with rich histories: violins by Amati and Guadagnini, a cello once hit by a train, and a hand-made Fazioli grand piano crafted from 11,000 parts. His meticulous blending of images creates an illusion of grand scale, where a 240-year-old cello resembles the interior of a ship, a century-old saxophone becomes a glowing tunnel, and piano keys transform into a monolithic temple.
About the Artist
Charles started his career as a cellist with some of the world's great orchestras before turning to photography full time in 2016. He was principal cellist of the Shenzhen & Guiyang Symphonies (China), the Orquestra de Camara de Valdivia (Chile), and spent three years with the Sao Paulo Symphony in Brazil. A Lumix ambassador, he is now based in Melbourne, Australia, where he spends his time as a freelance photographer and indulges his other passion, astrophotography.
Media Attention
Architecture in Music has been one of the most published photographic series internationally since 2022. Charles’s photos are now in Museums worldwide, and have been reproduced more than 20 million times in many of the world’s largest newspapers and magazines. They have been featured by the most influential art and photography blogs worldwide, and are in commercial use by clients as diverse as the Paris Conservatorie and the CERN Hadron Collider.
In 2025 the series will have its first major international exhibition, running for six months at the Napa Valley Museum as part of the Napa Valley Festival, where the photos will be printed at a breathtaking room-size scale. Smaller exhibitions will also be held in Budapest and Stockholm, and Switzerland.
Quotes
- Daily Mail (UK): “A new stunning series of photos”
- Der Spiegel (Germany): “What looks like craters, art and bold buildings are instruments from the inside”
- My Modern Met: “Stunning Photos Reveal the Architectural Interiors Hidden Within Classical Instruments”
- NBC News (USA): “Striking Photos Reveal the Hidden Structures of Instruments”
- Classic FM (UK): “Artist’s striking photography reveals hidden depths of musical instruments”
High resolution images for editorial use are available on request:
All Articles:
This series has received so much international attention that it's difficult to keep track. New articles appear every week in a multitude of languages. The following is a list of the articles and publications that the author is currently aware of:
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