MESSAGES FROM SPACE

SITES OF IMPACT

Meteorite Craters From Around the World
Stan Gaz

hardcover, 2009

60.00

Earth has 170 documented scars from falling space rocks. A single meteorite can leave a wound as big as 236 miles wide (like South Africa's Vredefort Dome). The best-preserved impact sites are often difficult to access – buried under ice, obscured by foliage, or baking in desert climes. These desolate landscapes are connected to another place outside of our world, and for photographer Stan Gaz they are sites of pilgrimage – steps in a journey begun as a curious young boy accompanying his father on geological expeditions, and culminating in a six-year journey traveling the globe in search of these sites -- resulting in these epic 85 black & white aerial photographs from Namibia, South Africa, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.