Artist: Andrew Brooks

Having been featured in digital art mags, Kellogg's commercials, and an assortment of album covers, Andrew Brooks is obviously quite capable. The images on the left right now might not seem awe inspiring in their technical execution - except that he's been doing it for years before all of these composite hotshots you can see kicking around Flickr these days.

I'm putting him up here for two specific reasons: first, while green screening and compositing is becoming commonplace, we rarely see someone willing to take out something so foundational to an image - the head. Second, while his photos have a good amount of postpro, Andrew is showing us that he understands light better than a lot of the studio photographers working in controlled environments.

Andrew's work is gutsy and from image to image we can see some are quite a bit less successful than others. But I think that's the point when someone's pushing the boundaries like he is willing to do. After all there's a reason David Bowie and Bjork are considered pioneers and top-tier artists - because half of their music is only so-so while the other half is mind blowing.

I do, however, think his web page needs a serious work over. For now though his images stand on their own.

While I think Andrew's work needs to mature, I think it will. Good work Andrew.

Find: Andrew Brooks' website