The legendary photo project "Earth Seen from the Sky"

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, photojournalist, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and recipient of numerous other awards. He gained international renown for his series of aerial photographs of various corners of the Earth: the project "Earth from the Air" (1995). Arthus-Bertrand has published approximately 60 books featuring aerial photographs.

Three million books featuring his photographs have been sold worldwide.







An astronaut on the Nazca Plateau, located in Peru.

El Atteuf in Algeria.



Love Parade in the Grosser Tiergarten park, located in the Berlin district of the same name.



Central Park in New York City.



Dovecotes in Mit Ghamr, Egypt. Pigeons are bred here for meat.



Caravan in the dunes. Mauritania.



A holiday village near Geneva, Switzerland.



Agricultural landscape near Cognac, France.



Drying freshly dyed carpets in Jaipur, India.



Emperor penguin colony on Beaufort Island off the coast of Antarctica.



Flocks of flamingos on a lake in Kenya.



A cemetery of Iraqi tanks in the desert in Kuwait.



A mosque in Mali.



"Rotary" irrigation systems across fields in Jordan.



Phi Phi Le near Phuket Island. Thailand.



The icebreaker Louis Saint Laurent in Nunavut, Canada.



Olive plantation in Andalusia.



Village on stilts in Tongkil. Philippines.



The Temple of Ramses II in the rock of Abu Simbel. Egypt.



Yurts on the outskirts of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.



A heart of mangrove trees in New Caledonia.



Chinese workers drying corn on the highway near Beijing.



Fishermen on the ice of Lake Baikal.



Cemetery in Assiut. Egypt.



Cows pasturing between dunes in Chile.



Fisherman on Lake Kossou in Côte d'Ivoire.



The eruption of Karymsky Volcano in Kamchatka.



Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris.



Tulip fields near Lisse, Netherlands.



The Church of San Juan Parangacutiro in Mexico, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Paricutin.



The Uffington White Horse is a 110-meter-tall chalk figure in Oxfordshire, England. It is approximately 3,000 years old.



A village near Lake Chad.



Venice from a bird's eye view.



The Tsingy de Bemaraha stone forest, formed by the erosion of softer limestone.



A tractor in a field in Montana.



Man-made islands that form the Palm Tree archipelago in Dubai, UAE.



The world's largest man-made archipelago - general plan.



Bras de Caverne Gorge on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.



A lone figure in a New York stadium.



"Tents of Peace" by Jerusalem-based artist Clara Halter.



The Athabasca oil desert in Canada.



Snow-covered Pripyat.



Royal Tombs in Ayutthaya, Thailand.



A scattering of satellite dishes on the roofs of the Old City of Damascus, Syria.



Salt formations of the Dead Sea.



Roman theater in Palmyra, Syria.



A flock of birds flies over a landfill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.



Mount Fuji.



Giant sign on a helipad in New York: "Melissa, will you marry me?"



Hyacinth thickets on the Nile River.



A melting iceberg in a fjord in Greenland.



Rice fields in Nepal.



The mouth of one of the tributaries of the Uruguay River in the Argentine province of Misiones.



View of the central part of the French city of Nevers, capital of the Nièvre department.