Sampling the Cirrus Band
In Sampling the Cirrus Band, Grayson Cooke uses satellite imagery to reveal hidden layers of our atmosphere.
The photographs come from the cirrus band of the Landsat 8 satellite, a special channel designed to capture thin, high-altitude clouds. Normally, these cirrus clouds are recorded only to be removed as visual noise. Cooke reverses this logic: he highlights what was meant to be discarded. The delicate misty streaks and towering thunderclouds, usually invisible to the human eye, take center stage in his images. Sampling the Cirrus Band exposes how data is gathered and filtered, and how much beauty can be lost in the pursuit of 'pure' documentation of the Earth.
