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About Fields From Orbit
Fields From Orbit curates real satellite imagery — real places, seen from orbit, on a real day. We work from the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite archive — the same imagery climate scientists and cartographers use — looking for the moments a landscape reads as art rather than data: a lake mid-bloom, a desert catching the light, farmland in geometric bloom.
Every piece carries its own coordinates and capture date, because the specificity is the point — not a stylized idea of a place, but one particular morning, somewhere real.
New pieces roughly every two weeks.
About the curator
I haven't travelled as much as I would like — life gets in the way, the way it does for most people. But looking down at the world, one image at a time, has been its own kind of journey. A river stops being just a river from above; it becomes a shape, a rhythm, a decision made over centuries by water and rock. Farmland stops looking like farmland and starts looking like geometry. A coastline stops being a boundary and starts being a story about where the land gave way, and where it didn't.
I go looking for the mornings a place looks most like itself — good light, clear skies, the right angle — and I bring back what I find.
I'm Paul. Toronto-based. Fields From Orbit is what I bring back.