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A Photographer Captures the Majesty of Glaciers, and Their Tragic Disappearance

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 12, 2020November 13, 2020

Patricia Carr Morgan describes her photographs of melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland as “a plea of mourning.”

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Recreating the Sounds of Antarctica

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 22, 2019August 3, 2021

With dripping, creaking, flowing, artist Katie Wood and scientist Grant Macdonald build an uncanny aural simulacrum of a melting continent.

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An Ominous Score for Antarctica’s Collapsing Glaciers

by Claire Voon September 11, 2017September 8, 2017

In downtown Chicago, the artist duo Luftwerk has created a public sound piece that evokes the calving of Antartica’s Larsen C ice shelf.

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118-Year-Old Painting of a Dead Bird Discovered in a Hut in Antarctica

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 13, 2017

For over a century, a small watercolor of a bird was forgotten in an Antarctic hut under penguin poop and moldy paper.

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Artists Issue Passports to Antarctica, the Final Borderless Frontier

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 25, 2016January 28, 2016

To encourage public awareness of the ongoing role of Antarctica in global cooperation, France-based artist duo Lucy and Jorge Orta launched the mobile Antarctic World Passport Delivery Bureau in 2008 where anyone can pledge citizenship to the southernmost continent.

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Antarctic Architecture for Scientists at the Edge of the World

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 26, 2015October 30, 2015

Antarctic exploration no longer involves frigid winters lodged in wooden shacks, or the threat of your ship being smashed to pieces in the ice with no means of communicating home.

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100-Year-Old Photographs of Doomed Expedition Discovered in Antarctica

by Alicia Eler December 30, 2013January 3, 2014

Some photographs are best left to be discovered decades after they were first exposed. Much like the work of Vivian Maier — whose images were found years after she said her goodbyes — a recent finding of 22 undeveloped cellulose nitrate negatives from a 1914-1917 Antarctic expedition reignites our wonder at the opportunity to glimpse a past thought lost.

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