Christoph Gielen

According to his biography, Christoph Gielen “specializes in conducting photographic aerial studies of infrastructure in its relation to land use, exploring the intersection of art and environmental politics.”

Gielen's images examine land use, urban sprawl and the man-made patterns found in our housing developments and arterial roads. One of the essays on his web site compares these structures to heiroglyphs or perhaps crop circles; symbols to be used as a means of communication with other, unnamed worlds.

Fascinating stuff—take a look here for more images as well as some interesting commentary by several writers.