If you have ever seen an aviation magazine cover that looks more like a carefully composed work of art rather than an image of an aircraft in flight, you may have seen the work of Paul Bowen, a commercial aviation photographer based in Wichita, Kansas. Bowen’s career as an aviation photographer began in the 1970s.
“As a commercial photographer in Wichita, eventually you’ll see an airplane through your camera,” Bowen quipped.
