Matthew Brookes: Les Danseurs. This item is unavailable.Matthew Brookes: Les Danseurs

For his first book, photographer Matthew Brookes has turned his lens upon the professional male ballet dancers of Paris. Over the course of a year, he took these dancers out of their regular environment of rehearsals and performances and photographed them in a raw space in which they were allowed to explore the physicality of dance in its purest form. This series of portraits depicts the dancers' responses upon being asked to interpret birds falling from the sky. The introduction is by Parisian prima ballerina Marie-Agnès Gillot, who has worked with these dancers over the years and watched them grow and develop. Brookes was born in England, grew up in South Africa, and is presently based between Paris and New York.

Matthew Brookes was born in England, grew up in South Africa and currently resides and works between Paris and New York. His speciality is fashion photography and portraiture and his clients include Armani, Cartier, YSL Beauty, Burberry, Berluti, David Yurman, Tommy Hilfiger, Zegna. His editorial clients include British Vogue, Vanity Fair, American Vogue, Interview Magazine, Numero, GQ, Details, Numero Homme, Vogue Hommes International and the New York Times Magazine.