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In the course of shooting assignments about retreating glaciers, photographer James Balog was stunned to see that extraordinary amounts of ice were vanishing with shocking speed. Ice that had taken centuries to form, was disappearing in just a few years, months or even weeks. This was a geologic scale change, happening right now, in our own time.
Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Art looks at the world through the psyche, the emotions and the unconscious. Science looks at the world through rational and quantitative means. James Balog founded The Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), to merge those two parts of human understanding and to document what is happening to the world’s glaciers.
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