A Striking Photo Series Documents the Melting Glaciers Along 4,000 Kilometers of Greenland’s Coast
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What began in July 2003 as a single visit to the frigid Ilulissat Icefjord in western Greenland morphed into a decades-long project for German photographer Olaf Otto Becker. That initial trip prompted fourteen subsequent voyages to the Arctic coastlines, wheA Striking Photo Series Documents the Melting Glaciers Along 4,000 Kilometers of Greenland’s Coast
What began in July 2003 as a single visit to the frigid Ilulissat Icefjord in western Greenland morphed into a decades-long project for German photographer Olaf Otto Becker. That initial trip prompted fourteen subsequent voyages to the Arctic coastlines, where he captured monumental glaciers calving and crumbling into the ocean and still expanses of water through bleak nighttime light. “Every day, huge thundering masses of ice break into the sea, causing the sea level to rise slowly but incessantly,” he writes. More Read more