Satellite imagery transformed into contemporary fine art.

A long-term visual project exploring the Earth as image, territory, and abstraction.

Artistic depiction of the Earth with North and South America, framed and displayed in a gallery.

The Story

Ultradistancia is a long-term satellite fine art project created in 2015. For more than a decade, I have transformed high-resolution images of the Earth into large-scale photographic artworks, revealing patterns, geometries, colors, and territories that are often invisible from the ground.

The project exists between photography, cartography, painting, and digital craft. It does not use artificial intelligence, a distinction that seems necessary today and would have been almost unimaginable when ULTRADISTANCIA began over a decade ago. Each work is built from real satellite imagery through a precise artistic process that turns the planet’s surface into a field of abstraction, memory, and scale.

A man with glasses working on a computer at night, with a dark background and blurred city lights outside the window.

The Earth Seen Otherwise

At satellite distance, the world becomes unfamiliar. What we usually understand as territory, infrastructure, or landscape begins to appear as composition: rhythm, surface, color, fracture, repetition, and form.

ULTRADISTANCIA works within that threshold, where geography becomes image and the Earth reveals itself as an immense visual archive. Each work transforms a real place into a contemporary abstraction, without leaving behind its physical and geographic origin.

Aerial view of Beijing Daxing International Airport, showing its futuristic, star-shaped design with orange inlaid sections and surrounding runways and taxiways.

BEIJING AIR (PEK) - Pekin, China. Ultradistancia Airports Series, 2015

Aerial view of a landscape featuring a winding river through forested and mountainous terrain, with a small town near the coast on the left side of the image.

Colorful satellite image of a landscape showing lakes, roads, and varied terrain with different textures and colors.

Modern living room with a large abstract map artwork on the wall, a wooden sideboard, decorative vases with dried branches, and a round coffee table with books and a mug. Sunlight streams through a large window, casting shadows.

LAS TRUCHAS MINE - Michoacan, Mexico - Ultradistancia Black Mines Series, 2020

From Satellite Image to Fine Art

ULTRADISTANCIA is built through a meticulous and long process of composing raw satellite images from different sources, using them not as finished documents but as a visual ground — a canvas where geography becomes material. Over more than a decade, a precise language of digital and artisanal techniques has developed that allows the Earth’s surface to be reinterpreted through geometry, color, scale, and abstraction. In the lineage of XVI map creators the resulting works move from image to object, becoming museum-grade pieces produced in multiple formats: archival fine art prints, wood and acrylic framed editions, videos, murals, textiles and custom site-specific installations.

Aerial view of a large city park with a pond, surrounded by a grid of city streets and buildings.

CENTRAL PARK - New York, USA. Ultradistancia Voyager Series, 2015

The Series

ULTRADISTANCIA unfolds through a group of interconnected series, each one exploring a different way in which the Earth becomes image: industry, agriculture, cities, infrastructures, travel, and memory. Together, they form a visual archive of human and natural geographies seen from a new distance.

Abstract digital map with colorful patterns on a black background, representing terrain or topography.

MINAS RIO - Minas Gerais, Brazil - Ultradistancia Black Mines Series, 2023

MINES
The monumental beauty and tension of mining landscapes, transformed into satellite-based fine art.

Aerial view of an industrial facility or plant with large storage tanks, pipelines, and buildings on a paved surface.

BRASILIA - Brasilia, Brazil - Ultradistancia Cities Series, 2015

Interior of a modern living space with a beige armchair, small round side table with a black vase and white flowers, wall art featuring an aerial cityscape, a wooden pendant light, gray walls, and a beige rug over wood flooring.

MANHATTAN II - New York, USA - Ultradistancia Cities Series, 2019

CITIES
Urban territories seen as complex systems of circulation, architecture, and density.

Aerial view of colorful agricultural fields divided by roads and irrigation canals.

REESE - Michigan, USA - Ultradistancia Fields Series, 2026

FIELDS
Agriculture seen from above as geometry, rhythm, and human order inscribed on the land.

Aerial view of an industrial facility or airport with runways, taxiways, and buildings, viewed from above.

HEATHROW AIR (LHR) - London, UK. - Ultradistancia Airports Series, 2021

AIRPORTS
Aviation infrastructures reinterpreted as compositions of movement, direction, and engineered space.

Close-up of a textured, layered forest of rocks or mineral formations with a colorful, illuminated edge at the bottom.

CLASSIC
The Foundational Series from the project, included in Google Earth, where satellite vision first became a way to travel without movement.

A satellite view of a mining site with a large open pit, buildings, and mining infrastructure in a mountainous area.

ESCONDIDA & ZALDIVAR MINES - Atacama, Chile - Ultradistancia Color Mines Series, 2019

The Journey

ULTRADISTANCIA has been featured by international media, cultural platforms, architecture publications, and technology outlets including The Guardian, Bloomberg, ArchDaily, LensCulture, Gizmodo, Designboom, HuffPost, Corriere della Sera, Wired, Forbes, Repubblica and Time Magazine, recognizing its original transformation of satellite imagery into contemporary fine art.

A satellite image of Montevideo, Uruguay, showing detailed city streets and waterfront along the coast.

In 2017 was invited by Google to be part of its Google Earth’s Voyager storytelling experience, bringing the project to a global audience through one of the world’s most influential geographic platforms.

Presented in institutional and cultural contexts where satellite imagery, contemporary art, territory, science, and industry converge.

Landing page of Google Voyager showcasing various nature and cultural images, including tropical beaches, abstract artwork, underwater scenes, land art, and a traditional Japanese torii gate.

Around the World

Over the past decade, Ultradistancia has been exhibited and presented internationally in galleries, museums, cultural institutions, art fairs, and corporate spaces. From large-scale photographic works to installations, videos, and fine art prints, the project has brought remote landscapes into direct physical encounter with a eclectic variety of people around the world.

Custom Projects

Ultradistancia creates bespoke satellite-based artworks for private collectors, companies, institutions, headquarters, public spaces, exhibitions, and special projects. Each commission begins with a specific location and becomes a museum-grade artwork developed through the project’s visual language.

A detailed architectural space plan layout with various labeled rooms and areas, including multiple images of global locations such as the world map, Cobre do Sossego in Pará, Brazil, Sudbury in Ontario, Canada, Sorowako in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and Ras Al Khair Port in Saudi Arabia, connected by red arrows.

Modern luxury living room with large windows, contemporary furniture, artwork, and decorative plants.

About the Artist

Federico Winer is an Argentine visual artist, photographer, producer, and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. His work explores the visual, political, and technological dimensions of territory, transforming satellite imagery into contemporary fine art. Through Ultradistancia, he has developed a unique body of work at the intersection of image, geography, abstraction, and global culture.

Black and white portrait of a man with light-colored eyes, a beard, and a shaved head, wearing a dark collared shirt against a plain background.

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YANACOCHA MINE - Cajamarca, Peru - Ultradistancia Black Mines Series, 2019