French digital artist Fabien Barrau uses his own drone photography to make photo montages of how ruined architecture might appear after a climate change apocalypse.
Called News From the Future, the series of renderings depict famous architectural landmarks in places such as Paris, Rome, New York and London submerged beneath waves or smothered in desert sands.
Top: Rome's Colosseum buried in sand. Above: Paris becomes a desert
"I try to imagine what would happen in the event of desertification, the rise of the oceans or the tropicalization of a region," Barrau told Dezeen.
For each composition, he combines drone photography and stock images to imagine how future generations of climate-apocalypse survivors might explore the ruins of major cities hundreds of years from now. The Empire State Building in the barren waste of New York City
He imagines them experiencing "the same feeling as the archaeologists of the 19th century who discovered Pompeii", the Roman city buried and preserved under ash from a catastrophic volcanic explosion in 79 AD.
Barrau's cinematic photomontages draw inspiration from his favourite works of post-apocalyptic fiction.
An abandoned Chicago overtaken by trees
The image of two whales swimming above Paris' Arc de Triomphe is a tribute to the French artist Roland Cat, whose work in the 1970s and 80s imagined sea creatures swimming above drowned cities.
News From the Future deliberately evokes films such as Planet of the Apes (1968), Mad...