Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen (b. 1974, Camp Springs, Maryland) is an American artist and geographer whose work investigates state secrecy, surveillance, and the hidden landscapes of military and intelligence infrastructure. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and brings a rigorous spatial and methodological approach to his investigations of black sites, drone bases, spy satellites, and undersea data cables.

His photographic work — made with extreme telephoto lenses to document classified military facilities from public land — produces images that are simultaneously documentary and aesthetically compelling.