Polska z nieba to niezwykły album. Zamieszczone w nim fotografie dwóch uznanych fotografików pozwalają spojrzeć z dystansu na otoczenie, w którym żyjemy. Pokazują to, czego na co dzień nie mamy szans zauważyć, skłaniają do refleksji o dziełach natury i człowieka. Elementy krajobrazu – naturalnego i tego przekształconego przez cywilizację – układają się w intrygujące, czasem abstrakcyjne kompozycje malarskie, zdumiewają harmonią barw i kształtów, oddziałują na wyobraźnię i emocje, dostarczają estetycznych wzruszeń. Fotografowanie z nieba to jeden ze sposobów interpretacji rzeczywistości, która z tej niecodziennej perspektywy nabiera zupełnie nowych znaczeń.

The sense of sight organizes information coming in from outside the body and arranges it into images. Decoding and interpreting them is done by the brain. Without realizing it, you analyse every image at several levels at the same time. First, your subconsciousness recognizes its harmony. At this level, you attempt to find a rule that organizes what you see – which can be felt but not named. So you simply perceive things as harmonious or not, light or heavy, hot or cold, attractive or off-putting – these impressions are caused by the composition of rhythms, colours, light, contrasts, symmetries. All this is a prelude to the next level of interpretation. Photographs without any formal content look like works of art. Can they really be regarded as such? Perhaps the very ability to find aesthetic value in images is itself a work of art? But this would mean that works of art are creations of the viewer’s mind and whenever you look at something you are an artist, as they are created in minds sensitive to a particular kind of aesthetic beauty and harmony, both sensual, appealing to you through images, sounds or tastes, and intellectual. At a higher level, conscious and rational, you recognize outlines and shapes, but also, more importantly, can name them – initially in very broad categories, then using increasingly specific terms. More than that: you can even, to some degree, define the relations between them. The more patterns your memory stores, the more you notice and the richer will be your interpretation of the reality recorded in a photograph.