I'm Anthony Brooks — "Brooks" to most people. Born in Baltimore, raised wherever the military sent us. Cuba. Sicily. A run of American cities that never lasted long enough to become home. You learn to watch when you're always the new kid. You learn an environment tells you what it is before anyone says a word.

I came to Los Angeles and did a little of everything before I got to call myself a cinematographer. You carry the thing before you get to decide where it points. The travel never stopped, and it still sets how I see — scripted, documentary, commercial. I've never drawn hard lines between them.

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I shot the first two seasons of Top Class for LeBron James and Amazon Studios — the sons of NBA legends playing high school basketball under more expectation than most professional teams carry — Critics' Choice nomination, Best Sports Series. I lensed BET's Forty Five and Forward, which took a Bronze Clio in 2025. Most recently, Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, Season 2, for Roku. Thailand, Switzerland, wherever the show went.

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It took me a long time to get into the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600. A long time. ICG Generation Next, 2023. ASC Vision Mentorship, 2023–24. 

 

The work that fits me has some weight to it. Stories that move between levity and darkness without announcing which one you're in.

 

If not for all of the above, he’d probably be a historian — maybe an analyst.