Earth Patterns from Above

 

  

 

The work of Daily Overview and Benjamin Grant is well known across the internet, his Instagram has half a million followers. There is now a book entitled 'Overview' and springs from the idea that seeing the world from above helps to give us a unique and perhaps necessary perspective of us and our landscape. Astronauts get to see the Earth in its amazing beauty, perceive the patterns of nature - and the devastating marks we have left on the natural environment. Now we get to gaze in awe too. 

For me it is the pattern that I am drawn to. Some locations are easy to fathom, while others confuse. The photographs could be an artist's palette, a child's play-mat or maybe something quite extraterrestrial. 

Overwhelming in their scale, I think we are able to appreciate these landscapes due to Grant's clever cropping and framing of the images. Allowing us to stand back and perceive our world from a completely new angle.

The project website is well worth checking out, visit 'Juxtapose' and see how the landscape is changing. Found at Ignant.