Petra Leary sees the world from above. She skates around cities, focusing her lens on becoming the world’s top aerial photographer. The 28-year-old New Zealander is the subject of a newly released Loading Docs short documentary, Bird’s Eye! She has spent the past few years taking award-winning aerial photographs of basketball courts. ‘I love just how simple they are, they are all the same formula, but they’re all different too,’ Leary says. ‘Some are wooden, some are concrete, there’s something that just catches my eye. I just love them.’ •Watch Bird’s Eye, a video by Loading Docs on Petra Leary and the art of aerial photography
Fri 30 Aug 2019 23.00 BST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 14.28 GMT
Ball is Life, shot on DJI Phantom 4 at the Pro Ball is Life Competition, 2018, Spark Court.
