Aerial Photography: Overview for Insights | Tom Hegen | TEDxKonstanz

Aerial photography has drastically changed the way we look at our planet. We can now bring cameras to new heights, seeing landscapes from every possible point of view. However, the aerial perspective also delivers visual information on the state of nature and how humans have altered nearly all parts of it. Tom Hegen takes you on an overview journey of our planet and explores insights into the human impact on our planet's surface.

Intro animation by Lisa Alvianne. Filming and video editing by Kai Lehmann.

Tom Hegen is a German photographer whose focus is on aerial photography projects documenting the traces we leave on the earth’s surface. He provides an overview of places where we extract, refine and consume resources. Ultimately, he delivers insights into the complex relationship between human and their environment. Often choosing to document abstract perspectives, he reads landscapes based on their significance within the global human impact on planet earth.

[WallyFonseca]

Amazing photos and the relation you made with them! I believe we are all connected and e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g we do has an impact on us...On earth!

[benjamindiedering]

Great photos tom!! Love your airport series