Have You Ever Seen the Inside of Musical Instruments?!

According to the SaedNews news-analytical website, citing Bahar News, Charles Brooks is a New Zealand–born photographer and musician who, in many of his works, seeks to capture frames from the world of music. His distinctive and surreal portraits of famous musicians around the world are highly creative and striking, earning him numerous awards.

However, his most remarkable photography project is the series titled “Architecture in Music.” This collection of images reveals the interiors of musical instruments, presenting them as if they were architectural structures. Brooks’s photographs, taken using special rod lenses and complex photographic techniques, reveal the beauty and complexity of spaces we might never have imagined seeing.

Each of Brooks’s images is a composition of hundreds of separate frames stitched together to form a complete view of an instrument’s interior. The instruments he has photographed are diverse, ranging from cello and didgeridoo (a traditional Australian wind instrument) to piano, saxophone, and others.

His unique photographic technique makes these internal spaces appear much larger than they actually are. For example, the interior of a cello resembles the inside of an old ship, while a saxophone looks like a tunnel made of gold. The keys of a piano appear like the columns of an ancient temple carved into the heart of a mountain.