George Steinmetz, Sandstone Pinnacles, Karnasai Valley, Chad, 1998. Courtesy of the artist.
Acclaimed National Geographic Photographer George Steinmetz Presents Stunning Aerial Desert Photographs: Desert Air
George Steinmetz Keynote Speaker: Earth Day, April 22, 12:15 p.m.
First Canadian Place, Waterfall Stage
100 King Street West
This Arts Brookfield-commissioned exhibition features 42 large-scale photographs from the book Desert Air by George Steinmetz. The award-winning National Geographic photographer spent fifteen years documenting the world’s extreme deserts from the air, using the lightest and slowest motorized paraglider that exists, to capture some of the world’s most remote environments.
This ambitious project took him to 27 countries plus Antarctica to create the first comprehensive photographic book on all of the world’s hyper arid deserts. These include the most remote and inhospitable places on our planet, from the summits of the Andes to the shores of the Dead Sea.
Steinmetz ventured from the hottest place on earth, in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia, to the coldest in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
Exhibition information: Desert Air, April 21 – May 16, 2014, First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West.