Jim Sanborn is an American photographer and artist born 1945 in Washington. In his photographic series ‘Topographic projections and implied geometries’ he explores archaeological, mathematical and scientific exploration through his photography. In his photography Sanborn tries to highlight mixing mathematics and physics such as looking at unseen aspects of existent concepts or objects such as the Coriolis effect, the earth’s magnetic field or cryptography.
Sanborn produced his series ‘topographic projections and implied geometries’ in the late 1990’s. He created all of the images individually using a large format light projector to create the shapes and formations in his images with the projector being half a mile away to create the perfect scale of the projection. He used generators to power the projectors which he transported to the locations. Sanborn photographed the American South west as well as the coastline of Ireland.
