THE BIG PICTURE

YANN ARTHUSBERTRAND HAS MADE A CAREER of shooting photographs from high in the sky. His 1999 book The Earth

From The Air sold millions of copies and cemented his status as an environmental activist. This photo of a village in the High Atlas Mountains is from his new book, Morocco

From the Air, published by Thames and Hudson (£25). “When people say ‘save the planet,’ I think they are wrong,” he once said. “The planet will survive us, of course it will; life will survive us. What we are trying to save is humanity.”