AirCraft by Jeffrey Milstein

When you think of aircraft jets you probably think of travel, or technology, or tiny portions of unidentifiable food wrapped in silver foil. For Jeffrey Milstein, who cites hanging around the runway at LAX as one of his favourite childhood pastimes, aeroplanes are a source of fascination, and wonder, and art.

His photographs – meticulously composed large-format images of commercial aircraft flying directly overhead – feel at once familiar, obvious, and strangely exceptional.

Click here to see a selection of Milstein's aircraft

For Milstein, who earned his pilot's licence as a teenager, the interest started as a personal exercise to recapture, through photography, the thrill he had enjoyed as a child watching planes flying low overhead, and evolved over time into a more stylised and formal artistic exploration.

His pictures happen to look nice, too; the symmetry, aesthetics and colour of modern passenger jets are showcased with geometric, almost clinical precision. Like children’s toys flying at 200 mph.

29 February 2008 | Art