About

Over the course of his 45-year career, photographer Alex MacLean has documented various American and European landscapes from the rural to the urban, from the mountains to the beachfront, and from the natural to the manmade. His signature aesthetic straddles the line between informative and abstract. As a certified pilot, MacLean flies his Cessna Skylane 182 plane at a low enough altitude that the features and figures he portrays are still identifiable such as in Green Cab (2010). However, by presenting these familiar landscapes from a bird’s eye perspective his compositions veer towards the …