The Independent reports that the book has been criticized and ridiculed by professional critics and photographers. Here’s what iNews art editor and former Independent writer Alice Jones had to say: What I See is a book for teenagers, by a teenager, which gives Brooklyn’s fans broader insight into his world seen through his unique and creative perspective,” Managing Director Francesca Dow tells The Independent. “Teenagers lives are filled with the visual image and we know Brooklyn’s photos resonate with his huge young following, who avidly follow his life through his photography. We are proud to bring these images together in a book for a young generation for the first time.” This time, Brooklyn’s poetic caption reads, “I like this picture, it’s out of focus but you can tell a lot is going on”. The footballer, turned model, turned photographer clearly has no aptitude when it comes to words and yet somehow, his editor and publishers allowed this book to become a reality. The caption next to a shadowy photo of an elephant reads: “Elephants in Kenya. so hard to photograph, but incredible to see.” He has no sense of the rules of thirds, or spacing in general. There was a picture of a bust that, and I am not joking, he managed to cut the head off of. He either needed to step in to the picture or step out in almost every picture.

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The aspect ratio of every picture was extremely weird. Most of the pictures were 16:9, which doesn't make sense for a picture ratio (I assume he chose that aspect ratio because it filled the screen of his laptop?). When you don't follow the rules of thirds and you have an aspect ratio like 16:9 it ends up being very jarring in a way that I am certain was not intentional.He didn't take all the pictures in the book! The book is called What I See, but he didn't take all the pictures! He copywrote all the pictures as his own, but at least 7% of the book was made up of pictures that his friends or family members took. He doesn't even name the friends that took the pictures. Very weird choice, why didn't an editor stop him from doing this? This is what I mean when I say the book had no sense.

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The basics, like lighting or focus, are often ignored in the book. Some of the most frustrating pictures are a result of this (the elephant picture, as an example).The fact that Penguin - a well-respected publishing company - would attach itself to such a diabolical collection of pictures is a disgrace to literature itself. I recently saw an article saying that Brooklyn's photography is better than Cole Sprouse's. First of all the two have completely different styles, second of all Cole is actually good. It’s a heavy book, not in content, but in size. The way that the small amount of words is written, without any structure or grammar, really annoyed me. Who writes a book without any capital letters? he cannot, for the life of him, straighten his picture. The horizon line is always anywhere from 3% to 15% skewed. It makes me think that his camera's sensor may have been broken, because it is almost every picture except maybe three or four. There are some where it was obviously an stylistic choice to skew the picture, about 95% of the book is made up of...mistakes? I guess? Look what just arrived… so excited #whatisee is finally here. Can't wait to meet some of you next week at signings, who's coming? Not all the photos are by him, some are of him, and the photos themselves are of fairly average quality and interest overall, there is shall we say no stand out shots, there are some you might say oh nice photo there, but that is what you would say to most collections of photos by any average joe.

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An interesting collection of images. His family makes for beautiful subjects. I especially love the images of strangers he has encountered. I also really enjoy his street photography — quite inspiring.The image in question is captioned “elephants in Kenya, so hard to photograph, but incredible to see” which by any means should never appear in a photography book. No matter what type of photographer you are, it shouldn't be too difficult to capture a decent picture of an elephant on safari so long as you know your camera and understand the golden exposure trio. This book was not sealed in my local bookstore and since I love photography and curious about the fame this fella has received for his “photography”, I took a peek. What I See is Brooklyn’s collection of around 300 personal photographs – most shot by him but with some shots of Brooklyn taken by others -- offering a rare and intimate glimpse of the world through his eyes. This stylish and beautifully designed edition will be comprised of fan favorites as well as new and exclusive images from his personal archive.