Pressure Ridge, Scott Base, Antarctica

• Main Author: Campbell, Joyce
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery 2006
• Subjects: Black-and-white photography; Arctic regions; Ecology; Ross Sea (Antarctica); Snow; Ice; Women photographers; Arctic; Antarctic; Ross Sea; Scott Base; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/scn,66

From the series, Last Light: Antarctic Photographs, taken when Campbell traveled to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica. "The series makes allusion to the interconnectedness of natural systems and human intervention and complicates the simplistic notion of a clear Nature/Culture divide. There is a dark irony to the growing consensus that while efforts at colonizing Antarctica throughout the twentieth century barely dented its icy surface, our collective addiction to fossil fuels, acting incrementally and from afar has gnawed deeply into the ice structures that cover the continent. The resulting unintended effect is antiheroic, grimy, disintegrative and potentially cataclysmic. I hope to draw my audience into a conversation about modernity and obsolescence, the relationship of individual action to collective conditions and the evidentiary role of photography." Written by Joyce Campbell, 2007.