Burtynsky creates large scale aerial and elevated photographs of industrial infrastructure and transformed landscapes that share Gursky's interest in the visual patterns of human systems imposed on the natural world. His highway and roadway series directly parallels the rhythmic abstraction and contemplative scale of Autobahn Mettmann.

Fuchs photographs roads, paths, and rural infrastructure cutting through European landscapes with a cool, detached precision that echoes Gursky's transformation of ordinary transit scenes into formal compositional studies. His work similarly explores the quiet tension between constructed environments and surrounding nature.

Light produces sweeping aerial photographic surveys of American infrastructure and sprawl that match Gursky's elevated perspective, bold scale, and interest in how transportation systems create abstract visual patterns across the land. His large format prints invite the same meditative contemplation of modern human organization.