In 2021, Hegen traveled through the United States, France, and Spain to photograph vast solar energy infrastructures that will be delivering clean energy for generations to. .
The neatly-arranged circular facilities seen in Hegen’s images are solar thermal power plants, which focus sunlight from thousands of moving mirrors called heliostats onto a central. .
“Aerial photography, to me, is like data visualization for scientists,” Hegen says in a 2022 interview with Fortune. “The elevated perspective has such a remarkable ability to show.
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