Eric Bergeri's aerial shots of São Paulo

Eric Bergeri is a São Paulo based biologist turned photographer who specialises is fashion and actions  sports. Unsurprisingly he switched his attention to skyscrapers and aerial views when he arrived to São Paulo and has taken some great shots of the city often from unusual perspectives.

Below are a series of Bergeri's photographs taken from a helicopter. In his own words:

"I wanted to shoot some photos from my seat and some others with a wide angle to get some perspective (of) the crazy lines of the tallest buildings. The main problem is that the chopper’s blades are in the frame if one shoots from the door with a wide angle. So, I designed a tool to remotely trigger the camera under the chopper..."

Smart guy. Here are the results:

Banespa building 

Copan building

Football pitch in a favel

Sé Cathedral

São Paulo skyline

Helicoptor Overload

I don´t even have to look out of the window, I can hear them. The rhythmic sound of the blades chopping up the air outside fade in and out so regularly I am already becoming oblivious. Low flying helicopters are everywhere! When you´re at street level and buried beneath the skyscraper forrest they´re not so noticeable but get a bit of altitude and you it’s a chopper spotter’s dream!

I read this week that the posh end of Vila Olimpia around Rua Funchal which is one of the areas we are looking at renting out an office has more heliports than bus stops. Just a statistic of course but stop and think about that, a small segment of a business neighbourhood has 25 heliports alone!  Most of these buildings were built in the 90s already with heliports on top so it’s not exactly a new phenomena.

By the way some people call this area Vale do Silício paulistano (Paulistano Silicon Valley) because Google, Microsoft, Intel, Symantec etc all built their offices there.