Tristan Duke Glacial Optics HARDBACK 9798890181152

Radius Books

Using camera lenses made of Arctic ice, Tristan Duke's ongoing, experimental photographic project, Glacial Optics, explores our current moment of climate crisis.\nIn the spring of 2022, artist Tristan Duke set sail for the Arctic Island of Svalbard, the fastest-warming place on the planet. His goal was to craft functioning camera lenses from the very ice of the glaciers. Through melting ice lenses, Duke captured portraits of an Arctic landscape in quiet turmoil. These ephemeral lenses became the foundation for a photographic series imagining the \""gaze of the glazier\"" as a means of confronting the global climate emergency.\nOn returning from the Arctic, Duke turned his ice-lens camera to document massive wildfires raging across the American West \u2014 bringing the melting glaciers to bear witness\n\nTristan Duke: Glacial Optics\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the ;