Christoph Gielen

Today’s NY Times yielded an interesting article about the photographer Christoph Gielen and his aerial photography work.  As a designer, it is highly un-surprising that master plans have appealingly unique, fanciful dichotomies from their unidealized realities on the ground.  But it is very interesting to see the aerials of prisons, given their general obscurity in American life.  I found myself thinking about the people inside these houses, inside these prisons: who are they? why are they there? Sometimes you need a macro viewpoint to consider the most micro.

The full slideshow is available here.