Romancing the tower

March 11, 2010 at 11:11 am
Filed under Arts and Crafts

“The mobile phone tower is an excellent example of one of the necessary evils of modern life. While most people demand better coverage for their phones, town zoning boards and local residents aggressively fight the telecommunications companies to prevent the construction of massive eyesores that are visible from miles around. Both sides would like to somehow make these towers ‘invisible‘, and the current solution favored by many is to dress the towers up to look like trees, so they blend in better with the surrounding environment. Or at least that’s the intention.

German photographer Robert Voit has spent the past several years scouring the globe, making pictures of these cell tower trees.” — A.M.