British photographer Joseph Ford has created a series of mesmerising photographic juxtapositions. The images – a meticulous morphing of aerial landscapes and the textural details of fashion – are inspired in part by trips to Mauritius and Sicily which led him to develop the concept of aerial fashion.

The resulting diptychs are the product of a remarkable imagination. Road markings lead seamlessly into a denim jacket’s stitching; train tracks run into the zipper on a jacket; little fluffy clouds merge into the rips on a pair of jeans; sand dunes blend into the folds of a sweater. The photographs play with perception and scale, shifting the viewer back and forth between epic views and the minutiae of fabric.

Travel and fashion

Born in London in 1978, Ford started taking pictures whilst studying for a degree at the University of Cambridge and got his first break shooting an advertising campaign for TBWA Paris in 2004. Since then he has been commissioned by clients around the world, including big brand fashion houses like Missoni, Pepe Jeans and Lacoste. His work has mostly been advertising and editorial images of people on location or in the studio but more recently he has moved into photographing aerial images and landscapes.

A fluent French speaker, Ford spent several years living in Paris where he still regularly works, but now resides in Brighton in the UK. Visit his website to see more of the aerial images, or read more of the background in Fisheye Magazine (in French) and creative inspiration site It’s Nice That.

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Photos: Joseph Ford