Ragnar Axelsson's images of a disappearing Arctic

These look like a wonderful set of images on the changing North which is disappearing as a result of changing climate patterns.

The INDEPENDENT article has a selection of the images.


The pictures of Narwhal hunters, icebergs, huskies and polar bears are the fruits of Axelsson’s 30-year obsession with the Arctic. The exhibition, titled The Last Days of the Arctic, is intended to portray the effects of climate change and to herald the region’s decline.
Axelsson, who travelled, lived and hunted with Inuit communities, intended to record “a society in its twilight”. Over the years, he found his excursions hampered by extreme changes to the landscape; tracks he once followed are now impassable, territories now deserted of animals, and so food.



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