Colubus Circle, 2021
"It’s a privileged view. Who wouldn’t want to fly around like a bird looking at anything and everything down below? I think it’s about the content of the image, but also the form in general. My art training and architecture background leads me to create images in a more traditional sense — ones that utilize order, balance, symmetry, and framing. I think we’re so bombarded with digital images today that people really respond to my kind of classical images."
Milstein earned his pilots license at 17, and his passion for flight led to his well known typology of aircraft photographed from below while landing. The work was presented in a solo show at the Ulrich Museum of Art in 2008, as well as in a year long solo show at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 2012. In 2016 it was on display at the Brandts Museum in Odense, Denmark. In recent years Milstein has reversed the direction of the camera creating award winning unique aerial images of man-made landscapes that are iconic and emblematic of the modern world.