Satellite Of Love

A trusted photographer will often bring us a story that we truly love but have absolutely no clue how to incorporate into the theme of our next issue. As we poured over Thomas Rusch’s vibrant beauty shots while preparing our Fall Travel Issue, we kept coming back to the fact that the photos looked remarkably (though unintentionally) like aerial satellite pictures of various corners of the planet. To Google Earth we went. Punch in the exact longitude and latitude coordinates, and you’ll discover just how closely those lips and eyes look like the Maldives, the Great Salt Lake, and Mt. Krakatau.

Photographed by Thomas Rusch
Makeup by Loni Baur
Creative Director: Fabrice Frere – PlanetFab Studio