Antarctica
Antarctica is not a place that eases you in. The mountains come out of the water at angles that feel structurally wrong: too steep, too sharp, too much. The wildlife doesn't behave the way wildlife does anywhere else on Earth, because nothing here has learned to be afraid of people. I went looking for landscapes and found an ecosystem so dense with life that the compositional challenge was never finding a subject; it was choosing between them.
The photographs in this collection were taken across the Antarctic Peninsula, from zodiacs and shore landings, in conditions that changed by the hour. Penguins, leopard seals, humpback whales, and sea birds alongside the ice formations and mountain faces that frame all of it. If Svalbard feels like the edge of the world, Antarctica feels like the world before people arrived.
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