The wonderful Earth from the Air exhibition has come to Norwich.
It's incredible how a different perspective can change your whole impression of something. One that's stuck in my mind is the "tank graveyard" - Iraqi tanks destroyed during the first Gulf War. It's like that other picture (not an Earth from the Air one) of the aeroplane graveyard somewhere in New Mexico (I think) - hundreds and hundreds of planes all lined up wing to wing and tail to tail, rusting away to nothing. Makes you think about our massive consumption of things that eventually just get discarded.
On the other hand, the one I like the most is of a mud village next to the River Niger. You can't quite work out what the picture is until you get close and then you realise. The village is totally isolated, there are no roads, no electricity pylons or any other signs of modernity.
A wonderful picture and a wonderful exhibition.
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