Requiem for a Glacier

For forty years, Ragnar Axelsson has been composing a visual elegy for the dying Arctic. Where the World is Melting, published by Kehrer Verlag, bears majestic witness to this silent collapse.

One can almost hear the ice cracking beneath the lens. The Icelander Ragnar Axelsson—RAX to those close to him— tirelessly roams the northern reaches where the habitable world falters. His photographs, of striking austerity, bear witness to the metam...

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