Photography on paraglider, by Kacper Kowalski

Kacper Kowalski is a Polish photographer — winner of a World Press Photo Award in 2014 — spent five years studying architecture and four years in practice before giving it all up to fly solo, quite literally.

Drone photography may be on the rise, but it seems that the old-fashioned manned aerial vehicle has its advantages and via motorized paraglider, Kowalski diverges from the conventional path of practice photography and the actions on the ground become amazing brushstrokes on a great canvas, capturing the world below from unconventional angles with an extraordinarily steady hand. Seen from above, the local architecture and natural landscapes take on a graphic quality and document powerful stories in the process. Kacper Kowalski says he seeks “to show daily situations in the abstract.”

From a motorized paraglider, John diverges from the conventional path of practice photography.-

"From the air I cannot connect to the persons in the same way that would do it with classic photography. I cannot take part in which it´s happening because I am very far. But I can provoke emotions in the people across common and symbolic places showed with a very radical aesthetics. A beauty probably controversial, but that helps them to understand what they see".