Photo: D. Byron Darby
D. Bryon Darby’s new home in Arizona, is directly within the flight path
of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, so what’s a photographer
to do? He made an art project out of it, of course:
I photographed Seventy Flights in Ninety Minutes from the top of
Hayden Butte in Tempe, Arizona. The publicly accessible volcanic butte
is just beyond the airport and is straddled by Sky Harbor’s two
busiest flight paths. For 90 minutes, I photographed every airplane
that flew overhead, and then I digitally stitched together the many
individual photographs. I hoped to re-create the experience of living
in a flight path by compressing an hour and a half into one apparently
single moment.