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ANTARCTICA
2012

In 2012 I was awarded an Artists and Writers Grant from the National Science Foundation to photograph Antarctica. I lived at the United States research center, McMurdo Station, for six weeks and was able to traverse the Ross Dependency and photograph areas of Antarctica that very few have seen.

 
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THE ARCTIC MELT
2015

My journey to the Arctic began at 77 degrees North in Svalbard, Norway where I photographed its rapidly melting mountain glaciers. The journey from Russia through the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole in a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker allowed me to witness first-hand the effects of warm air on the Arctic Ocean.

 
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JOURNEY TO GREENLAND
2016

In 2016, I re-visited Greenland. It had been nine years since my last visit and the landscape had changed drastically. The constant calving of the glaciers filled Disko Bay with miniature icebergs, and the Greenland ice sheet was now studded with melt water lakes. Rivers poured out from under its glaciers.

 

RISING TIDE: SINKING EARTH
2018-19

Rising Tide: Sinking Earth focuses on the dire effects of rising tide on the disparate coastal communities of the Florida Keys, Chesapeake Bay, the Pacific Islands of Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, and Bangladesh. I travelled to each of these communities, filmed interviews with the local people, photographed the area and collected debris that had washed ashore.