Josef Hoflehner

Jet Airliner #04
Air France Airbus A340-300
Superlow Arrival from Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Jet Airliner #05
Continental Airlines Boeing 737-800
Arriving from Newark, NJ

Jet Airliner #01
American Airlines Boeing 737-800
Arriving from Miami, FL

Jet Airliner #13
Corsair F-HSEX Boeing 747-400
Arriving from Paris-Orly, FR

Jet Airliner #09
American Airlines Boeing 737-800
Arriving from Miami, FL

JOSEF HOFLEHNER was born in 1955 in Wels, Austria, when the country was still under allied occupation. He grew up in a family where the camera was used so rarely that as many as three Christmas holidays would be captured on one roll of film. Although Austria could boast awesome mountains and a great natural landscape, it had no coastlines, deserts or empty spaces where one could see the horizon unimpaired. At the age of 20, Hoflehner purchased a camera and began to travel. An early award for photography began to open doors professionally and his career has continued to develop with amazing success.
- by photographer ALINE SMITHSON

The photographs of the series Jet Airliner are real (no photoshop), live-action, wide-angle captures of arriving and departing airplanes at the Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies. Taken with a old Hasselblad SWC, JOSEF HOFLEHNER could take only one shot per plane, which is very difficult when the plane pass to 250 km/h right before landing.

Fasten seatbelt and prepare for landing ;-)