In a scene from Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams' character, the English teacher John Keating, famously climbs on top his desk to remind himself, and his students, that "we must look at things in a different way. The world looks very different from up here." Thanks to satellite and drone technology, we can now take Williams' advice quite literally by looking at the world from up above. 

Using a remote-controlled drone, the photographer Denis Esakov has done just that by capturing the amazing "fifth facades" of Moscow's architecture. Photographing over seventy buildings throughout Europe's largest metropolis, Esakov flies over the city to reveal previously unseen geometries of the city's greatest architectural icons. The new vantage point exposes intriguing compositions that spark a re-evaluation of the works themselves and a query into the hidden symbolism behind the plans that up until now, have remained the secret of the architects and their clients.

Esakov's work has been compiled into a bibliographic picture book, Spying on Moscow: A Winged Guide To Architecture, that can be enjoyed simply for its beautiful images, or investigated for the hidden messages behind some of Moscow's most mysterious aerial facades!