“I get kind of fearless with a camera. I’ll go places that I would never be able to get to without it.” —George Steinmetz

 

Famous for his “intimate aerial” photographs, George Stenimetz has pioneered a new way of seeing the earth from his motorized paraglider and shown audiences images unlike any seen before. He enjoys the challenges of this type of photography because of the unique perspective it gives him. “Even with very minute differences in position, I can get a very different feeling in a picture,” he said. “What I love to do is show people the world in a way that they’ve never seen it before, to show people things that they didn’t even know existed.”

Steinmetz spent two-and-a-half years hitchhiking