There is something intrinsically fascinating about lifting your head or looking out the window and spotting an aircraft, and wondering where it is coming from or how many people are onboard. Point of Approach captures this wonderment by combining a photographic 'glimpse' of flying metal with as much publicly available information about each aircraft, as photographed through the window of a South-London apartment on one November day in 2006.

This project was realised before the instant access to data that we now take for granted. I couldn't see what was coming on a aircraft radar. They didn't exist, I just had to to sit there and patiently wait. I researched each of the data point included in the book, and cross-index each airline against its annual report to provide a estimate on how many people were onboard each aircraft. I calculated that well over 100.000 people flew past my window on that November day. The aim of project was to take those simple photographs, and somehow extract as much information out of them as possible and juxtapose that simple picture against the data.

The photographs were split into a four volume book, each covering a 6 hour window: Volume 1 (00:00-06:00), Volume 2 (06:00-12:00), Volume 3 (12:00-18:00) and Volume 4 (18:00-00:00).

Each aircraft photographed was given its own double spread. One page shows the photo, the other page a scale drawing of the aircraft model (including occupancy), airline livery, and corresponding data drawn from publicly available data.

This juxtaposition between the abstract photo of the small plane in the sky against the rawness of the cold hard facts. A single edition was produced, covering over 1200 pages.