Window / Seat: A Book
In October 2018, back when we took air travel for granted and a cold was just a cold, I flew from Rekjyavik to San Francisco. I had spent a week photographing in Iceland’s Westfjords region, and had picked up a severe head cold.
In my virus-addled state, I couldn’t focus for long on either the polar landscape outside the window or the seat-back movie. So I started taking pictures of both, letting my attention get snagged for a while by the stark geometries below and then by the flashing scenes before me.
Eventually, I started using a slow shutter speed to layer several movie scenes into one image and a black and white app to heighten the grandeur of the landscapes.
A year and a half later, as we gaze out our windows at a world stunned by a different, and deadly, virus, I found these images again and made this little book.
—March 2020
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