Birds Eye View Room Portraits by Menno Aden
Through a camera installed on the ceiling Menno Aden abstracts most familiar actual living environments and indoor public spaces into flattened two-dimensional scale models. These birds-eye-view photographs capture a unique perspective on rooms, compared to the perfectly neat and tidy interior photos we are so used to seeing.
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Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly maps, photos, and delicate, detailed drawings are precious. In “Speak, Memory” he wrote, “I have hunted butterflies in various climes and disguises; as a pretty boy in knickerbockers and sailor cap; as a lanky cosmopolitan expatriate in flannel bags and beret; as a fat hatless old man in shorts”.
What are my obsessions and where will they take me?
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Oh my pelagic lovelies! Portugese-man-o-war in the center, a Glaucus atlanticus nudibranch on the right (iridescent), and on the bottom, my personal favorite, PYROSOMES - the most bioluminescent organisms in the world.
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Source: wildography.co.ukBaby Macaque, India Photograph by Tony Campbell
A baby macaque with its mother close at hand
