I’m Marko Dragoljevic, born in Serbia and now based in Amsterdam.
I grew up around aeroplanes. My father served in the Yugoslav Air Force, and at home everything was about aircraft and flying, so a passion for anything that flies came naturally. When spaceflight became part of that world, I followed it as the next chapter of flying.
The turning point came in 1994. At 16, I visited the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and saw real spacecraft and the artefacts of spaceflight for the first time.
Later I took up photography, and the two passions merged into this archive: photographs from air and space museums I have visited across Europe and the United States, organised by museum and visit.
My favourite aircraft, in no particular order: the SR-71, MiG-31, Space Shuttle, Fw 190, Me 262, Il-2 and Spitfire.
Special thanks to my friends Janko Grujić, for taking me to remarkable historical places in Russia, and Miroslav Miladinović, for taking me to IWM Duxford.
More from me: underwater photography at markodragoljevic.com, Orrery, an interactive guide to the solar system, and Human Copilot, my advisory practice.
P.S. Since I haven’t made it into space yet, I took up scuba diving to enjoy weightlessness under water.
