stephan zirwes: aerial photographs

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offering a whole new perspective on both natural and manmade settings, stuttgart-based photographer stephan zirwes‘s aerial images is an extensive series that illustrate an otherwise unseen phenomenon of texture and pattern that could only be observed from above. rendered abstract in its composition and vantage point, the photographs range from airfields to cultured lands; from dense crowds to a lone skier on a mountainside. very often, the result is an image that depicts the gravity of isolation, showing the vastness of an environment but at a scale that is still discernible to the viewers.

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image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

image © stephan zirwes

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