Aerial Photography by Cameron Davidson

Aerial and people photographer Cameron Davidson calls Northern Virginia home. He creates images from the skies around the globe for advertising campaigns, annual reports and editorial features. Clients include Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, American Express, Dominion and Virginia Tourism. His location portraits have been featured in editorial spreads as well as in corporate campaigns and annual reports. An avid volunteer and board member for the Community Coalition for Haiti, Cameron documents the CCH aid projects in central and southern Haiti.


Inspired by a love of flight and aerial views, Cameron recently completed a 20-year personal project celebrating the beauty and fragility of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Select images from this project were the focus of a recent issue of the Washington Post Magazine and in Garden & Gun magazine. The book CHESAPEAKE - The Aerial Photography of Cameron Davidson will be released this fall. The University of Virginia Press is distributing the book. A slip-cased, signed limited edition version will also be available.

Fake Tilt-Shift Photography by Olivo Barbieri

Olivo Barbieri is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments. He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography. Barbieri’s technique simulates the shallow depth of field effect of macro photography by tilting the lens’s angle to the back plane of the camera, which creates a gradual blurring at the top and bottom edges, or left and right edges of the filmed image. The technique is called selected focus and the effect is that picture of an actual city looks like the picture of a model.

Barbieri began his career in photograpy studying at DAMS at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Bologna. After 1971, his interest in photography grew and, initially, he focused his research on artificial lighting. In 1978, he took part in several exhibitions in Italy and also abroad. In 1989 he started to travel regularly to the Far East, particularly to China.

In 1993, 1995 and 1997 Barbieri exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale, among other international exhibitions, and in galleries and museums throughout Europe, North America, and China. In 1996, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, devoted a retrospective to his work, which has been collected by museums worldwide.

Aerial Photography by Stephan Zirwes

German photographer Stephan Zirwes is most known for his aerial shots, finding delicate and poetic forms in the most mundane or exciting of environments. His photos are so beautiful. Part of their beauty is that they are shot directly downward. The other part is the subjects of the photos. Hundreds of meters above the ground with a climbing harness, hanging out of an open helicopter, Zirwes composes his graphical abstracting photographs. His work shows patterns, structures, connections, boarders, uniformities and contrasts but also current political and sociocritical themes.