Artifacts (Spacecraft in Perpetual Geosynchronous Orbit, 35,786 km Above Equator) 2010 C-print
Trevor Paglen is a photographer and geographer interested in landscapes of secrecy created by the US military and intelligence community. Predator drones, reapers, satellites, black sites, and tracking stations appear heavily throughout his body of work; including Torture Taxi, (co-authored with investigative journalist A.C. Thompson), I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me, and Paglen’s most recent book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World.
Paglen’s new exhibition, Unhuman, opens at the Altman Siegel gallery Thursday February 10 and runs through April 2, 2011.
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