Aerial Photography as High Art

Conrad Lowman is an artist who really gets high on his art. High in the sky, that is. While he was studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, Lowman was inspired to take to the air with a camera. He had seen the works of William Garnett, a pilot who took pictures of wheat fields and man’s manipulation of the earth from the sky.
In 1990, after he had formed his own photography business in Wilmington, he was on an aerial shoot over the USS North Carolina Battleship when he asked the pilot to fly over the barrier islands and marshes.
“The patterns, textures, designs and colors were so spectacular that I have been photographing nature’s changing waterscape ever since,” he said during the opening of a show on Jan. 25.
His aerial photographs are on display at the Fayetteville’s Museum of Art’s Gallery 208.

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