This artist makes clouds appear in unexpected places
With the air as his canvas, a Dutch artist applies water vapor, smoke, lighting—and conjures clouds in surprising settings.
Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds to photograph in odd places—here, in China’s Shanghai Himalayas Museum—using smoke and mist machines. (He retouches the images so the tools aren’t seen.)
Photograph By Nina Chen
ByDaniel Stone
• 2 min read
This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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