“People tell me my work is beautiful,” he says. “Well, a glacier blackened by soot looks extraordinary. There is an incredible poetry and beauty in tragedy.”
About this book
Previously working as a fashion photographer, Michel Comte is an expert climber and pilot and has been photographing glacial environment for 30 years. Comte periodically returned to the same places over more than a decade to document even the tiniest changes in light and landscape. He depicts the glacial landscapes by alternating close-ups and partial details with panoramic views, as a result, unveiling the frosty and unpredictable nature of these landscapes. This book is his record of the gradual disappearance of natural heritage. “People tell me my work is beautiful,” he says. “Well, a glacier blackened by soot looks extraordinary. There is an incredible poetry and beauty in tragedy.”
