What is reconstruction photography?

These photos look real, but there is a strange atmosphere that Manchester photographer Andrew Brooks can't tell. He took many photos, but he didn't choose the best one to show to the public. Each of his works needs hundreds or even thousands of photos, and through superb post-technology, the ordinary scenes in these photos are collaged into places that seem to appear only in dreams.

"The key factor in my work is the atmosphere. No matter how many components there are in post-processing, the atmosphere and feeling of a photo are the most important. " In order to create a wonderful feeling of clouds falling, he cut, pasted and reconstructed the scene with Photoshop. Reconstructed photos often have amazing effects: "Sometimes just one scene can bring enough inspiration. When I was in that landscape, I knew what I was really interested in. What I need to do is to capture as much information as possible in the scene, and then try to restore it and highlight those interesting places, which can be a detail or a light. "

It is very important for Andrew to get accurate details. Some works took him more than a year to finish.

Although the details are very important, Brooks reserved some creative space when making the last series of works. For example, in a work in Manhattan, he enlarged the Statue of Liberty by half. Many photos you see in the atlas are impossible scenes. For example, a city floating in the clouds is like a planet in science fiction, and this is exactly Andrew's view of the world. In the short film below, Andrew shows the process of reconstructing a photo.