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Stunning
Photos of the Arctic Circle As It Literally Melts Away
The
latest monograph from photographer Diane Tuft provides a little-seen
portrait of beauty and loss.
1
June, 2017
Artist
and photographer Diane Tuft, whose work is included in the permanent
collection of the Whitney Museum, the International Center of
Photography in New York City, and the Parrish Art Museum in Water
Mill, New York, has focused her life’s work on traveling to remote
areas to record environmental changes on the Earth’s landscape. Her
first monograph, UNSEEN: Beyond the Visible Spectrum, was a
collection of 10 years’ worth of photographs from the American
West, Nepal, North Africa, and Iceland. She spent six weeks on the
continent of Antarctica for her second book, Gondwana: Images of an
Ancient Land.
Her
latest, The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape
(Assouline), brings her back to the Arctic Circle, where her
unconventional landscape photography turns frozen tundra and ice from
the North Pole, Norway, and Greenland into a staggering record of
beauty and loss.
The Greenland Ice Sheet
Taken July 16, 2016, this overhead shot documents the Greenland Ice Sheet, the 660,000-square-mile collection of ice that covers roughly 80 percent of the surface of the island.
The
Greenland Ice Sheet
The
Greenland Ice Sheet
Taken
July 16, 2016, this overhead shot documents the Greenland Ice Sheet,
the 660,000-square-mile collection of ice that covers roughly 80
percent of the surface of the island.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
Wedel
Jarlsberg Land
Wedel
Jarlsberg Land
A
glacial split in progress in Wedel Jarlsberg Land, at the southern
end of Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. More
than 65 percent of the region is estimated to be ice cap.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
Franz
Joseph Land
Franz
Joseph Land
The
Collinson fjord, where a failed expedition to reach the North Pole
set up camp more than 100 years ago, is located in the high Russian
Arctic archipelago of Franz Joseph Land, an uninhabited collection of
islands in the Arctic Ocean and Barents Sea.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
The
Arctic Ocean
The
Arctic Ocean
A
photograph of the Arctic Ocean taken at 87 degrees north latitude.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
The
Greenland Sea
The
Greenland Sea
At
79 degrees north, where the Arctic Ocean meets the Greenland Sea.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
Disko
Bay
Disko
Bay
The
Broken Arches in Disko Bay, a wide southeastern inlet of Baffin Bay
on the western coast of Greenland.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
Wordiekammen
Wordiekammen
Ice
patterns on Wordiekammen, a mountain in Svalbard, Norway.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
Sullorsuaq
Strait
Sullorsuaq
Strait
Close-up
of ice at Sullorsuaq Strait, on the western coast of Greenland.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
Greenland
Greenland
Remnants
of ice at 69 degrees north in Greenland.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
Wahlenbergbreen
Wahlenbergbreen
Wahlenbergbreen,
a glacier in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.
Photographer:
Diane Tuft
The
North Pole
The
North Pole
This
photograph was taken at the North Pole at 12:03 a.m., at 0 degrees
Celsius.
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