Benjamin Grant: What it feels like to see Earth from space
بنجامين جرانت: الشعور الذي يخالجك عند رؤية الأرض من الفضاء
Through his mesmerizing satellite photographs, Benjamin Grant offers us a new way of seeing of our planet and ourselves. Full bio
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has successfully completed
three days before,
beyond low Earth orbit.
المدار الأرضي المنخفض.
above the Moon's horizon.
asks his crewmates where their camera is,
بتلهف عن مكان الكاميرا،
points it towards the window,
important photographs of all time:
a few days later,
إلى الوطن بعدها بأيام قليلة،
at the University of Pennsylvania
of hundreds of astronauts
to view the Earth from space.
three common feelings:
for Earth's beauty;
of connection to all other living beings;
مع جميع الكائنات الحية الأخرى؛
often overwhelming sense of emotion.
the Earth from a great distance
new cognitive frameworks
were forever changed
as the "overview effect."
باسم "التأثير الكلي."
have ever been to outer space.
I set off on my own mission:
انطلقت في مهمتي الخاصة،
of overwhelming scale and beauty
من الحجم الهائل والجمال
that I launched "Daily Overview."
overhead view of our planet.
have been created thus far,
of perspectives.
اليومية من هذه الآفاق.
from the massive archive
called Digital Globe.
تسمى "ديجيتال جلوب."
of five satellites,
taking pictures of the Earth
28,000 kilometers per hour.
is equipped with a camera
with a standard 55 millimeter lens.
المجهزة بعدسات 55 ملم
one of their satellites
أحد أقمارهم الصناعية
at the stadium in Amsterdam.
of this project
that incredible technology
the Earth for resources,
في الأرض بحثًا عن موارد،
and cultivate crops for food,
المحاصيل لنحصل على الغذاء،
of doing all of these things,
control and impunity.
والإفلات من العقاب.
a few of my overviews with you now.
to the port of Singapore.
in the world by terms of total tonnage,
ازدحامًا في العالم من حيث الحمولة الشاملة،
of the world's shipping containers
you'll see a lot of little specks.
فسترون العديد من النقاط الصغيرة.
في حقول التسمين
in the United States.
and placed on a specialized diet.
the cows gain an additional 180 kilograms
يزداد وزنها 180 كجم إضافية
about this glowing pool at the top there.
combination of manure, chemicals
من السماد والمواد الكيماوية
that grows in the stagnant water.
التي تنمو في الماء الراكد.
of Western Australia,
on the face of the Earth.
in the construction of buildings,
such as your dishwasher or refrigerator.
مثل غسالات الأطباق أو الثلاجات.
in Seville, Spain.
around an 140-meter-tall tower
حول برج طوله 140 مترًا،
of light reflected upwards
من الضوء المنعكسة لأعلى
to a storage tank underground,
to power 70,000 homes
of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
ثاني أكسيد الكربون كل عام.
in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
في (سانتا كروز)، (بوليفيا).
to untouched tracts of rainforest.
has primarily been driven
the demand of its growing population
مطالب السكان المتزايدة
of its rainforest
lost 4.5 million acres of rainforest
4.5 مليون فدان من الغابات المطيرة
in Barcelona, Spain.
can be incredibly helpful
smarter solutions for urban planning,
will live in cities around the world
ستعيش في المدن حول العالم
by its strict grid pattern,
بنمط شبكي دقيق،
better ventilation
من أشعة الشمس والتهوية الجيدة
but under much different circumstances.
لكن في ظل ظروف مختلفة تمامًا.
in northern Kenya,
of its kind in the world.
who are fleeing Somalia,
gridded out at left
على شكل شبكي في اليسار
these white dots,
the area over time.
about changes in time.
عن التغيرات في الوقت.
of the project "Juxtapose,"
of it with you now.
bloom every year in April.
في أبريل من كل عام.
captured in March a few weeks before
taken a few weeks later.
in this magnificent cascade of color.
في هذا اللون الرائع عند الشلال.
4.3 billion tulip bulbs every year.
4.3 مليون زهرة توليب كل عام.
in southeastern Brazil,
environmental disasters
cubic meters of waste
مترًا مكعبًا من القمامة
in the process,
seen here before ...
التي شاهدناها،
were killed in this disaster.
have access to clean drinking water
الحصول على مياه شرب نظيفة
into the Doce River,
of plant and animal life along the way.
من النباتات والحيوانات
related to the crisis in Syria,
مرتبطة بالكارثة في سوريا
of hundreds of thousands of people
is seen in Mafraq, Jordan in 2011,
بالأردن عام 2011،
captured just this year in 2017,
of the Zaatari refugee camp.
the lunar landscape for the first time,
that you could have imagined
look like from outer space.
the aesthetics of an image,
what it is you're seeing,
that you still like it.
I want to create with my work,
it is that contemplation,
interest in our planet
of what we're doing to it.
from the overview perspective
of these high-flying cameras,
لهذه الكاميرات التي تحلق عاليًا،
that we are having.
a more expansive perspective,
health of our planet,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Benjamin Grant - Artist, authorThrough his mesmerizing satellite photographs, Benjamin Grant offers us a new way of seeing of our planet and ourselves.
Why you should listen
By curating and composing high-resolution aerial imagery, Benjamin Grant has repurposed a medium once reserved for security experts into a tool that provides us with a thought-provoking look at human impact on our planet. As the founder of Daily Overview, he tells a story not only of man's relationship to the earth but also of how a determined search for novel perspectives can shift our psychology, inspire greater collaboration and stimulate visions for a better future.
Grant has grown Daily Overview into one of the most popular blogs on social media, garnering the largest following on Instagram (currently 556,000+ followers) of any brand with an environmental focus. His best-selling book Overview: A New Perspective of Earth has been critically-acclaimed by the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, CNN and was selected as one of the "Best Books of 2016" by Amazon, The Smithsonian and the Los Angeles Times. First published in October 2016, the book has been translated into seven languages.
Images from Daily Overview have been featured in hundreds of publications around the world including the New York Times, Washington Post, WIRED, The Economist, VICE and more. Grant has shown large-format prints at numerous exhibitions around the world with noteworthy installations in Munich, San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and Hjo, Sweden.
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