“Blue Sky Days,” a video and still #dronephoto project by @tomasvh. Tomas will present it for the #Surveillance.01-USA exhibit, 7 0’clock April 4, at the #nymediacenter in #Dumbo.
The backstory: Tomas won the 2013 #GettyGrant for a proposal to buy a drone, attach a camera and video feed to it, and photograph the very sorts of American gatherings that have become habitual targets for foreign air strikes: weddings, funerals, groups of people praying or exercising. He also flew his camera over settings in which drones are used to less lethal effect, such as prisons, oil fields, industrial feedlots, and stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border. The images captured from the drone’s perspective engage with the changing nature of war, privacy, and government transparency.
Note: @Harpers mag is running #BlueSkyDays as a 16-page spread in their April issue—the most pages they’ve given to photography in their 160+-year history!! http://ift.tt/1psjuHk