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May 28, 2014

Sans Nom

by KOTE in Landskap


Foto:Jean de Pomereu

Foto:Jean de Pomereu

Foto:Jean de Pomereu

Foto:Jean de Pomereu

My series, Sans Nom, was taken in 2008 in the Pridz Bay Region of East Antarctica between 1 am and 4 am, when the air was remarkably still, and a thin mist descended upon a group of neighboring icebergs locked into the winter sea ice. The silence and desolation were profound – as if time had stopped and eternity had taken hold.

Jean de Pomereu - Photographer

Foto:Jean de Pomereu

Foto:Jean de Pomereu

Traveling through this ice-scape felt like entering a lost city, resembling Atlantis, where the icebergs replaced monumental ruins. But these ruins had no names. Totems of the underworld transiting at the frozen interface of water and atmosphere - born of the perpetual transformation of the physical realm.


Foto:Jean de Pomereu

The ice crack represents the first fissure in this world of stillness and silence: The first dramatic sign of the coming spring breakup of the sea ice. At a time when the vulnerability of polar ice is made increasingly apparent by the work of scientists, it evokes the fragility, as well as the generative power of ice.

Foto:Jean de Pomereu


For me, Antarctica is an object of continued visual and intellectual fascination : A wilderness that, however much it is scrutinized and deconstructed, remains unmoved in its glacial quietude, its penetrating silence, and its ability to draw us, one degree at a time, toward the essential.

 www.jeandepomereu.com

Foto:Jean de Pomereu

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