Blue Sky Days in Cortona Italy

Blue Sky Days solo exhibition 17 July to 27 September, 2015

Cortona On the Move Festival
Vecchio Ospedale
Via Giuseppe Maffei 24-26
52044 Cortona
Italy

According to strike reports compiled by investigative journalists, several thousand people has been killed by covert U.S. drone strikes since 2004. Although we live in the most media-connected age in history, the public has scant visual record of the drone war and its casualties. In response, I decided to attach my camera to a small drone and travel across America to photograph the very sorts of gatherings mentioned in strike reports from Pakistan and Yemen — weddings, funerals, groups of people praying or exercising. I also flew my camera over settings in which drones are used over America to less lethal effect, such as prisons, oil fields, and the U.S.-Mexico border. I aim to draw attention to the changing nature of personal privacy, surveillance, and contemporary warfare.

Sponsored by Leica Camera Italia.

(There will also be a Leica Akademie Workshop 18-19 July in Cortona with Tomas van Houtryve.)