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Seen from above, the world’s deserts offer astonishing compositions. The American photojournalist George Steinmetz, a regular contributor to National Geographic and GEO, has hovered over them since the beginning of his career twenty-five years ago. Desert Air is the name of his new book, as well as an exhibition currently on view at the Anastasia Photo gallery in New York. For this work, fifteen years in the making, the photographer focused on the world’s most extreme deserts, those which only receive 10cm of rain per year. Harnessed to his stable and silent paraglider, Steinmetz takes viewers on a world tour, from the Gobi desert in China and the sandy plains of the African Sahara, to the vast American deserts like Death Valley. In these sweeping orange, yellow and red landscapes, man-made structures look like small-scale models, and living things appear to be frozen figurines.
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