Oliver Curtis: The photographer who turns his back on the world's most famous landmarks

Photographer Oliver Curtis has captured a new perspective on the world's landmarks.

The show is entitled "Volte-face" and will be shown at the Royal Geographical Society in September 2016. Taken over a period of four years, Curtis has created a series of photos that manage to capture the intense atmosphere of world landmarks without picturing them once.

Curtis explained how the idea first occurred to him on a visit to the Great Pyramids of Giza:

After walking around the base of the tomb I found myself looking back out in the direction I had arrived from, with the pyramid behind me ... I found this visual sandwich of contrasting colour, texture and form intriguing not simply for the photograph it made but also because of the oddness of my position; standing at one of the great wonders of the world facing the ‘wrong’ way.

Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing, China

Mona Lisa, Paris, France

The Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany

Great Wall of China, China

Stone Henge, UK

Statue of Liberty, New York City, USA

Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt

The Parthenon, Athens, Greece

The Taj Mahal, Agra, India

The Western Wall, Jerusalem, Israel

Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Hollywood sign, California, US

Lenin mausoleum, Moscow, Russia

'Volte-face' will run 19 September - 14 October 2016. More of Curtis' work can be found here.

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