In Plane View
Perspective
Outwardly, air travel links these two personal series but at their core they’re really about perspective.
The two series are captured from opposite points of view: the first vantage from an airplane’s window seat to the tarmac below; the second, looking up at the aircraft and subject.
Both series are also about a shifting viewpoint on an experience or situation, seeing things differently from multiple angles and drawing inspiration from that.
Look Down: Tarmac Art
Keith was spending a lot of pre-dawn, non caffeinated mornings and evenings on planes heading to and from corporate hubs throughout the U.S. for clients. He had the rhythm and routine of that frequent flyer schedule down to a science. But he missed seeing and being inspired by art; its abundance everywhere you walk is one of his favorite things about life as a New Yorker.
Until one magical morning in December 2014 his window seat vantage point aboard a plane in The Magic City reframed the mundane. He didn’t just look out the window. He saw a textured canvas, not a tarmac.
This ongoing personal series gives Keith a boost of creativity without the caffeine and serves as a reminder that inspiration is everywhere—just look and see.
View more of Keith’s personal work here.
Look Up: Global Connector
As a global emcee, TEDx speaker, keynote speaker and moderator, Margaux Miller is an expert on creating meaningful human connections in a tech-driven world.
Margaux’s passion for global connection, international travel and exploration has ancestral roots: her grandfather’s aviation career as a mechanic for Air Canada. This remote photoshoot at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg pays tribute to him while also nodding to her modern-day life as a remote-first professional (at the time of this photoshoot) with the ability to work anywhere around the world.
Margaux arranged access for this shoot to various aircraft on display in the 87,000 square foot museum designed like a stylized hanger. The museum even provided these vintage suitcases to use as props and she got to sit in the exact airplane her grandfather once worked on and posed with during the world fair Expo 67. She thought ahead of every detail, including this vintage outfit (hat and shoes too) from Vantage Vintage Boutique.
The museum’s marketing specialist Vanessa Desorcy generously gave Keith a 45-minute guided tour of the different aircraft on display while simultaneously acting as a human tripod, holding and angling the iPhone while taking direction from Keith and relaying that to Margaux, too, as he captured these images remotely from Savannah, Georgia while seated on his mother-in-law’s couch.
Margaux was photographed for the virtual offshoot of Keith’s 12-year-old ongoing personal series redheadproject.net that captures the unique stories of redheads wherever they are in the world. If you are a redhead and are interested in participating in person (the project is based in New York City) or remotely, please message me.
View more images from Redhead Project Virtual here.
Thanks for reading, and see you back here soon!
Kate