Mick Hartley

German photographer Markus Brunetti makes images of churches, cathedrals, basilicas, and monasteries round Europe that are more like architectural drawings than photographs.

Working closely with collaborator Betty Schöner, with whom he travels around the continent in a firetruck that has been converted to a photo lab, the pair snap thousands of images of each structure in meter-by-meter detail, often over the course of several years.

Through a meticulous editing process that includes layering and arranging each shot into composite images, Brunetti creates precise, high-resolution views of the facades that we never experience in real life. Perspective is skewed so that the ornate temples and cathedrals’ entrances are perfectly straight.

_{“Amalfi, Duomo di Sant’Andrea Apostolo”} 

_{“Bucuresti, Templul Coral”}

_{“Wells Cathedral”}

_{“L’Aquila, Basilica di San Bernardino”}

_{“Santiago de Compostela, Catedral”}

_{“York Minster”}

_{“Roma, Basilica di San Pietro”}

_{“Noyon, Cathédral Notre-Dame”}

_{“Lincoln Cathedral”}

_{[All images © Marcus Brunetti]}

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