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Contributor Bio
Brita Brookes is a Photographer working in the Michigan, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and S. Dakota areas with a specialty in documentary style photography. Influenced by the work of the Beat Generation, Brita has documented the Beat Poet Michael McClure as he visited Detroit in the winter of 2009 while reading at Wayne State University and at the Scarab Club. As a member of the Detroit Artists Workshop and a supporter of all the Workshop stood for in the 1960's, Brita has been able to take photos of the Poet, Activist, Blues Scholar and Jazz Aficionado John Sinclair as he read at Detroit's MOCAD in winter 2009.
A believer of Jazz as an art form of great faith, many of her photos are of Jazz subjects with the intent in capturing that one improvisational moment, where stream of consciousness takes off and the intuitive kicks in. "Jazz is a religious experience for me," says Brita, "because, it takes great faith to improvise and great faith to just get up there, play and connect with the audience on a higher level."
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