Charcoal on paper, 18 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches, 2012
While doing some research, I came across the beautiful ice-scape photography of Frank Hurley (1885-1962), who was the official photographer aboard the ‘Endurance’ as part of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition from 1914 – 1917. In our present day of climate change – 100 years after that expedition – the sight of icebergs evokes different meanings, thoughts and feelings than in Hurley’s day.