【Watch Nice Sister】

Perspective sometimes requires taking a step back.

The Watch Nice SisterFBI is trying to figure out who recently knocked down more than 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. This followed an incident in St. Louis, Missouri, in which vandals damaged 200 headstones at a Jewish cemetery. This week, a Jewish cemetery in Rochester suffered a similar fate.

Damage can be hard to visualize in numbers or as a series of incidents, but photojournalist Charles Mostoller brought a different perspective to the vandalism in Philadelphia when he sent his drone into the sky above the cemetery.

Over 100 gravestones were knocked over this weekend in what police consider an act of anti-Semitic vandalism at the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery in Philadephia. #igers_philly #hatecrimes #antisemitism #vandalism #cemetery #drone #aerial

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From the air, it's easy to see how many headstones are now lying on the ground, and just how much repair is in store for those who work in or care about the cemetery.

The idea seems to have come naturally to Mostoller, who told Timehe is working on a project that uses high-up images to demonstrate how people interact with the world around them.

"I am interested in using this vantage point to look at the world in a way we wouldn’t otherwise," he said.

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