Gallery Six

"Summer Ice"
Photographs from Newfoundland

For many years I wanted to travel to Newfoundland and Labrador during the long days of summer to photograph icebergs. Last year I pre-sold my first limited-edition portfolio to fund a project I call "Summer Ice."

I spent the month of June 2004 photographing a total of fourteen icebergs from chartered boats: everything from rowboats to inflatable Zodiacs.

To be in the presence of icebergs is both humbling and awe-inspiring. One feels immediately and profoundly connected to a larger life landscape. This ice (some of the purest water on earth) has been on a three-year journey from Greenland, and is said to be 10,000 years old. These icebergs travel south to Newfoundland to break up and die.

It was aesthetics, along with a fascination for Northern climates, which compelled me to photograph these icebergs. Yet, I also now envision presenting this new body of work alongside text to help elucidate the controversial problem of Global Warming.

Ice is the earth's canary in the coalmine.

"…the total area covered by glaciers in Glacier National Park has declined 75%… the smaller glaciers are now gone and the larger ones are one-third the size they were in 1850… In 20 years there will be no glaciers on earth…"

"The future of ice… is the future of life."

From "The Future of Ice - A Journey into Cold" by Gretel Erhlich

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