Ancient Sites from the Air: A talk by David R Abram

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Somerset-based photographer David R Abram has spent the past five years capturing images of Britain's prehistoric monuments from the air.

Using flying cameras and telescopic poles, and taken in beautiful lighting conditions, his work reveals the ancient wonders hiding in plain sight around us, from Neolithic monuments on the Wessex chalklands to Iron Age crannogs in Hebridean lochs.

David's signature pieces are large format composites, made up of hundreds of smaller photographs stitched together to create prints that have an incredible range of tone and detail. Some have been shot perpendicular to the earth's surface and have an abstract quality, disrupting one's sense of scale and perspective.

In this talk, David will discuss his work, which is to be the subject of an exhibition at The Salisbury Museum bringing together 22 of the most spectacular and mesmerizing pieces from his forthcoming book The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain, to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2022. The majority of the extraordinary prehistoric sites featured are in the Salisbury area.

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