The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, photojournalist, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and recipient of many other awards. He gained worldwide fame thanks to a series of photographs of various corners of the Earth taken from the air: the project "Earth from the Air" (1995). A book of the same name was published, including in Russian, in 2002. Arthus-Bertrand has published about 60 books with photographs taken from above.

In total, 3 million books with his photographs have been sold worldwide. (See Part 2)

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
An astronaut on the Nazca plateau, located in Peru.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

El Atteuf in Algeria.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Love Parade in the Great Tiergarten park, located in the Berlin district of the same name.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Central Park in New York.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Venice from a bird's eye view.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
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The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A tractor in a field in Montana.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Man-made islands that form the Palm archipelago in Dubai, UAE.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The world's largest man-made archipelago - general plan.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Bras de Caverne gorge on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A lonely figure in a New York stadium.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
"Tents of Peace" by Jerusalem-based artist Clara Halter.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The Athabasca oil desert in Canada.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Snowy Pripyat.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Royal Tombs in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A scattering of satellite dishes on the rooftops of the old city in Damascus, Syria.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

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The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Salt formations of the Dead Sea.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Roman theatre in Palmyra, Syria.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A flock of birds flies over a landfill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Fujiyama.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Giant sign on New York helipad: "Melissa, will you marry me?"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Hyacinth thickets on the Nile River.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A melted iceberg in a fjord in Greenland.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Rice fields in Nepal.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The mouth of one of the tributaries of the Uruguay River in the Argentine province of Misiones.
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
View of the central part of the French city of Nevers, the capital of the Nièvre department.

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The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
An astronaut on the Nazca plateau, located in Peru.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Love Parade in the Great Tiergarten park, located in the Berlin district of the same name.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Central Park in New York.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Dovecotes in Mit Ghamr, Egypt. Pigeons are bred here for meat.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Caravan in the dunes. Mauritania.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Holiday village in the vicinity of Geneva, Switzerland.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Agricultural landscape near the town of Cognac, France.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Drying freshly dyed carpets in the Indian city of Jaipur.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A colony of emperor penguins on Beaufort Island off the coast of Antarctica.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Flocks of flamingos on the waters of a lake in Kenya.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A cemetery of Iraqi tanks in the desert in Kuwait.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Mosque in Mali.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Carousel irrigation systems across fields in Jordan.

Phi Phi Le near Phuket Island. Thailand.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Icebreaker Louis Saint Laurent in Nunavut, Canada.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Olive plantation in Andalusia.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Village on stilts in Tongkil. Philippines.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Temple of Ramses II in the rock of Abu Simbel. Egypt.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Yurts on the outskirts of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Mangrove heart in New Caledonia.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Chinese people dry corn on the highway near Beijing.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Fishermen on the ice of Lake Baikal.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Cemetery in Asyut. Egypt.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Cows pasture between dunes in Chile.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Fisherman on Lake Kossou in Ivory Coast.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Eruption of Karymsky volcano in Kamchatka.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Charles de Gaulle Square in Paris.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Tulip fields near Lisse, Netherlands.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The Church of San Juan Parangacutiro in Mexico, destroyed by the eruption of the Paricutin volcano.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The Uffington White Horse is a 110-metre chalk figure in Oxfordshire, England. It is approximately 3,000 years old.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A village near Lake Chad.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The stone forest of Tsingy de Bemaraha, which was formed by the erosion of softer limestone rock.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A tractor in a field in Montana.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Man-made islands that form the Palm archipelago in Dubai, UAE.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The world's largest man-made archipelago - general plan.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Bras de Caverne gorge on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A lonely figure in a New York stadium.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
"Tents of Peace" by Jerusalem-based artist Clara Halter.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The Athabasca oil desert in Canada.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Royal Tombs in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Salt formations of the Dead Sea.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Roman theatre in Palmyra, Syria.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A flock of birds flies over a landfill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Fujiyama.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Giant sign on New York helipad: "Melissa, will you marry me?"

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Hyacinth thickets on the Nile River.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
A melted iceberg in a fjord in Greenland.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
Rice fields in Nepal.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The mouth of one of the tributaries of the Uruguay River in the Argentine province of Misiones.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
View of the central part of the French city of Nevers, the capital of the Nièvre department.

     

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