FINE ART aerial photographer Donn Delson was one of seven Los Angeles-based US photographers exhibiting work at Visions Unbound: A Photographic Journey Through American Eyes at Cromwell Place, South Kensington, in May. On display was Delson’s pieces Space Invader, Headdress, Abacus, and Feathered depicting his specialism of largescale, often abstract, aerial images shot from ‘doors off’ helicopters at heights up to 4,000m. His photographic ventures have carried him throughout the world – from Japan to the Netherlands, England to Israel, and across the US – while strapped into a doorless helicopter, some two miles above the earth. Delson has spent over 300 hours watching the world from a bird’s-eye point of view. He comments: ‘Looking out of the helicopter with the wind in my face and the magnificence of the world stretching out below, seemingly without end, the only thing I can be is in the moment.’
Xylophones, Points of View Collection, Los Angeles, California, US
Times Square, Points of Light Collection, Manhattan, New York, US
