The North (Yukon, Alaska, Iceland)
The North Gallery takes you to delicate areas where the glaciers are melting and the climate is rapidly warming. You’ll learn what drives glaciers to advance and retreat. Eric Hatch uses his fine art photography to bring climate change to life. You’ll visit places few people have seen or hiked. In some places, the glaciers are hanging on, but in others glacial retreat is obvious. You’ll see images from Canada’s Columbia Icefields Parkway, the remote Tombstone Territorial Park high in the Yukon, and you’ll fly low over immense glaciers among the volcanoes of Alaska’s Kachemak Peninsula. You’ll visit non-touristy parts of Iceland as well.
Visions of the North
Journey with Eric Hatch through the majestic Northern spaces of the Yukon, Alaska and Iceland.
I’ve spent years photographing the Arctic and sub-Arctic: Alaska, Iceland, New Zealand, places where glaciers are retreating faster than most people realize. This gallery is my attempt to show what’s happening up there through fine art photography that doesn’t look away from the reality of climate change.
The work is straightforward. Glaciers are melting. Ecosystems are shifting. I’m documenting it. But I’m also trying to create images that do more than just record facts. They communicate something about beauty and loss at the same time, making people feel the urgency without hitting them over the head with it.
The Alaska and Iceland glacier photographs function as both art and evidence. They’re meant for exhibition spaces where people come to think and look closely. Museums, galleries, places where photography can start conversations about what we’re doing to the planet.
