This book of lovely aerial photographs reveals a novel aspect of the islands that dot the Aegean blue. As we gaze upon them from the air they turn into stunning artworks: the traditional dwellings and picturesque chapels, the ancient ruins here and there, all set amidst geological formations that are as fantastic as they are diverse. Above the Aegean offers a totally new approach to the way we look at familiar places: they take on a numinous aura all of a sudden, as the lens captures them from above. All sense of spatiality becomes transformed; fields of vision are realigned; and the result is a narrative of landscape invested with a metaphysical quality. It is precisely by dint of this effect that “soaring” photography exerts its fascinating appeal: through the potency of images recording a habitat disengaged from the constraints of gravitation.