When and how did the iconoclastic adventurer side of you emerge?Ī: Beverly Hills is not a normal place, and I wanted to get away from it. Q: You grew up in Beverly Hills, with all the privilege that confers, then studied geophysics at Stanford. In a lengthy chat, interrupted by a tour of the house and a photo show-and-tell on his studio computer, he described what it’s like to capture the world from an aerial perspective. Talking about himself may not be his preference, but he proved a lively conversationalist when he sat down with frequent contributor Julie Bain at the New Jersey home he shares with his wife, Lisa Bannon, and their daughter and twin sons. Steinmetz is used to being the observer, not the observed. He has also published several books: African Air, Empty Quarter, Desert Air, and New York Air. His photographs have appeared in the New Yorker, Smithsonian, Time, and the New York Times Magazine, and he is a regular contributor to National Geographic. He has done much of his work while dangling from a paraglider in what looks like a flimsy motorized lawn chair. He has photographed New York City’s urban landscape, Kansas’ wheat fields, and Indonesia’s palm oil plantations. In more than 40 years as a photographer, Steinmetz has captured panoramic aerial images of the plains of Africa, the Gobi desert, the vast sand dunes of Brazil, and the frozen expanses of Antarctica. "I had no photography training I just started taking pictures, and I fell in love with it." News & Features (down arrow opens sub-menu)>
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