Cessna: low-altitude aerial landscape photography by Matthew Borowick, shot from a small fixed-wing aircraft over dramatic terrain.
Cessna is Matthew Borowick's series of low-altitude aerial landscape photography, shot from a small fixed-wing aircraft. It sits between the ground-level perspective of his Ground series and the closer, more maneuverable vantage of his drone work.
At two thousand feet in a small plane, the earth stops looking like a place you live in and starts looking like something a painter might have made. The braided glacial rivers of Iceland's interior — shifting channels of grey and silver cutting through volcanic plains — are invisible from the ground and overwhelming from above. These images were made with the door open and the horizon tilting, chasing the brief window when the light lands right and the landscape holds still long enough to be understood.
Why shoot from a small plane instead of a drone?
A Cessna reaches altitudes and covers ground a drone can't — roughly 2,000 feet, with an open door for unobstructed shots. It offers a middle perspective between Ground's intimacy and Drone's abstraction.
Where was this series shot?
Primarily over Iceland's interior, including its braided glacial rivers and highlands.
Are prints available?
Yes, in limited editions.
