FINE ART aerial photographer Donn Delson was one of seven Los Angeles-based US photographers exhibiting work at Visions Unbound: A Photographic Journey Trough American Eyes at Cromwell Place, South Kensington, in May. On display was Delson’s pieces Space Invader, Headdress, Abacus, and
Feathered depicting his specialism of large- scale, often abstract, aerial images shot from ‘doors off’ helicopters at heights up to 4,000m. His photographic ventures have carried him throughout the world – from Japan to the Netherlands, England to Israel, and across the US – while strapped into a doorless helicopter,
some two miles above the earth. Delson has spent over 300 hours watching the world from a bird’s-eye point of view. He comments: ‘Looking out of the helicopter with the wind in my face and the magnificence of the world stretching out below, seemingly without end, the only thing I can be is in the moment.’