LUMINOUS ICESCAPES


  • Photographer
    ANDREA HAMILTON
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2013

Luminous Icespaces is a series of photographs developed in Iceland and Alaska. When I visited the Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon in the southeast of Iceland, on the borders of Vatnajökull National Park, I was mesmerised by the icebergs that appeared like diamonds scattered on the beach at the beginning of Creation. The fragility of the ice on the beach where there is unceasing interplay of wave and sand - the very impermanence of the first and the eternal rhythm expressed by the second-was mesmerising. Iceland's evolving and surrounding landscapes offer the opportunity of experiencing a hypnotic journey. Its climate, lighting and inherent sound activate your senses in a way you can find all kind of detail, from whispering winds of diamond dust, rainbow reveries to deep sound emanating from under the ice. A series of photographs within this project show scenarios where ice is presented as a sequence of precious gemstones. It aims to emphasize their natural value since they are in some way the solitaire jewels of nature that we need to preserve in order to safeguard arctic environment for the future. Others show ominous, immense rigid walls of ice intermixed with dirt from Alaska, perhaps a metaphor of what the human existence has made to sully the purity of the ice. I try and allow the viewer to experience this dichotomy and form their own opinion of this complex issue of what is happening to the melting of the work's glaciers.

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