The Story

Water makes up the majority of the Earth, shaping the planet and its life in plenty of ways. When seen from above, waterways can create stunning unseen images that tell stories of our home planet.

Water.Shapes.Earth project by photographer Milan Radisics turns the meandering waterways all over the world into amazing visuals on the border between abstract and documentary.

They won’t just grab your attention with their beauty, through new perspective also make you rethink about how important water is and how much we should all try to save it. The story revolves entirely around water and the ways it shapes our lives and our planet in 7 big chapters and 22 topics

From the melting ice to the traces of disappeared water, in chapters we can see beauty, pleasure, coexistence, pollution, struggle, and dry planet on the end. All this with sense of awe to highlight its importance in the face of climate change and our destructive tendencies.

All stories beginning with chapter

1. The beginning of the end

Visual stories focusing on retreating glaciers and variable shapes of frosted water. From melting ice, to collapsed glaciers, to cooling geysers and silent springs, we have brought vivid stories that will help more people understand the importance of protecting our finite resources.

2. Veins of earth

Stories about bodies of water which gives a life and shapes Earth to the unseen and unbelievable formations. Created by water passed flatlands from combination of water origin, delivered minerals, sediments and soil creates real masterpieces of art visible only from the air. Carved routes of rivers, confluences, small or big lakes, tiny creeks, rivers or drained fishponds all tells stories about diversity, beauty and how water shapes Earth.

3. Lagoons - between water and land

We brings closer and make visible a transition zones between river environments and maritime environments often with surprising collage of colours. Unreachable, partially enclosed coastal bodies of brackish water tells stories about marshes, animal habitats, tidal areas, plants, swirling streams and about conservation issues from completely new perspective.

4. Waterscapes

Landscapes and water. Water and landscapes, or water shaped scapes. Aerial view give us re-interpretation of well known places, and sometimes lead us to remote, rarely seen, surprisingly new scenes, always with one goal: through powerful artistic visuals to get to know better our planet.

5 Coexistence

We use water on many way, and on these ways water shapes our lives. Economy, tourism, sports, education, agriculture, salt production, transportation and industry in general are fields where is clearly visible how water shapes our lives. We deliver positive and negative visual stories about utilization to make us more responsible for our environment.

6 Human print

Humans now arguably change the Earth. Mining, pollution, water redirections, waste deponies, dams, artificial channels and urbanization in general are all human prints often unseen from the ground. From the air we reveal these, and in our stories show gruesome human signatures that warn us.

7. Dry planet

Stories that draw attention to the climate change and what is happening if water missing. Photographs that show how people struggling in dry areas, artificial terracing ponds, devised irrigation channels, dry Spanish landscapes, and otherworldly patterns as mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan. Traces of water, streams remnants and cautionary landscapes painted by drought from new perspectives to rethink our relationship to water.

And some appendix

Cities on water

Pool culture

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