Julie Anand + Damon Sauer

In our ongoing photographic project, Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks, we visualize the expanding pervasiveness of satellite technology in relation to an historically significant set of satellite calibration targets. This system of approximately 240 calibration targets within the Sonoran Desert were created as part of a secret surveillance program in the...
In our ongoing photographic project, Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks, we visualize the expanding pervasiveness of satellite technology in relation to an historically significant set of satellite calibration targets. This system of approximately 240 calibration targets within the Sonoran Desert were created as part of a secret surveillance program in the mid 1960’s. The sixty-foot diameter concrete forms are located one per mile within a sixteen mile grid, designed as an array of ground truth markers. We are intrigued by the way that these markers of space have become markers of time, representing a poignant moment in geopolitical and technologic social history. We privilege the skies in each of our compositions in order to map the specific satellites present at each site at the moment of exposure. These maps emphasize the ubiquity of contemporary technology encircling the globe. In its broadest sense, the project investigates an individual’s position on earth in the contemporary context of vast networks of information.
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Calibration Mark AC48 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AC48 with Satellites (DETAIL)
Calibration Mark AF49 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AK46 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AG49 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AM43 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AJ46 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AC47 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AE48 with Satellites
Calibration Mark AF48 with Satellites