During every visit to the Arctic I return grateful for the life deepening experiences I receive. Nature is so close and so vast. In this amazing silence and space, I feel gratitude for life-in-abundance stimulated from the scarce and sometimes hostile environment. It is also about the daily experience of freedom empowered by a self…
Photo by Marco Nescher, 2018 Have you heard about Sortebrae-friendships? Can glaciers of cold and frozen matter create friendships? Just search on the Internet for “Sortebrae” and you will come across a few hits, mainly references to scientific papers on the ice dynamics of this large East Greenland outlet glacier at 69° northern…
Winter experience at the Faroe Islands’ cultural Torradagar event
Was macht einen Winter aus? Woran erkennt man, dass Winter ist? Kann man Winter riechen und schmecken? Bericht aus dem Winter im hohen Norden der Frozen Latitudes in “Land der Berge”.
A number of scientists who have actually been working with sea ice measurement had predicted some years ago that the retreat of Arctic summer sea ice would accelerate as it is part of a fundamental change. The same applies to the land ice masses like the Greenlandic ice sheet.
TV interview in “Mittag in Österreich” with Christoph Ruhsam and Wolfgang Schöner about the fine art photo book FROZEN LATITUDES and the impact of global warming on the High Arctic (in German).
Man schrieb das Jahr 1990, als uns die Durchquerung der westgrönländischen Halbinsel Nuugssuaq die Morphologie des Eises als ästhetisches Phänomen bewusst werden ließ.
Sitting on a Grass Roof Enjoying a Wienerwald Spring morning on the grass roof of our shed I could see a parcel delivery van turning into our side road and stopping in front of our house. On the parcel I spotted the letters “Seltmann PrintArt” and knew it was the delivery of the first…
Printing Frozen Latitudes Here in Lüdenscheid, Germany, the fine arts print company Seltmann Printart has started today with the print production of Frozen Latitudes. I’m here to sign-off the individual print sheets and fine tune the color settings. We are printing on a Heidelberg Speedmaster printer which is filling a whole hall of the print…
Interview with Christoph Ruhsam about his passion for The Cold and why he is publishing his Arctic experiences in the fine art photo book FROZEN LATITUDES (in German).