Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity

Video: Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity

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Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity

"The big is seen at a distance" - wrote Sergei Yesenin. American photographer Alex MacLean is guided by this principle. He took a series of thousands of aerial photographs showing human stupidity and greed. After all, all this can be seen better from a height.

Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity

Indeed, it often happens that at close range you cannot see all the advantages and disadvantages of something. Especially if it is human life, human Civilization. This is what the American photographer Alex McLean is trying to prove in a series of his aerial photographs.

Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity

In the photographs taken by McLean, we see the most unsightly sides of modern America - tightness, greed, extreme urbanization, poverty, anger, desire for profit, excessive consumption and many other vices. All this is not so noticeable when you look at it from below. But it is clearly visible when viewed from above.

Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity

Man, in pursuit of some of his situational benefits, disfigures the Earth. And this is precisely the main message of a series of photographs by Alex McLean.

Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity
Aerial photography: a portrait of human stupidity

So, if you want to see a portrait of human stupidity, look at the Earth from above!

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