As photographer Edward Burtynsky (@edwardburtynsky) increasingly makes use of aerial photography, his images have become flatter, stranger: visual puzzles. In Lagos, while reviewing overhead shots of sawmills processing rain-forest timber, he said, “People will like those. You don’t know what it is.”
From “The Long View” by Raffi Khatchadourian for The New Yorker; Burtynsky’s photo is called “Saw Mills #1” Lagos, Nigeria, 2016
