POINT 660, 08/2008 Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved
Becker photographed glaciologist and climate researchers, Konrad Steffen and seven scientists, at their measuring station, Swiss Camp, where they work on predicting the planet's future. Even at Point 660, a popular tourist spot, taking photographs of one another proudly in this formidable landscape may soon be over.
RIVER 3, POSITION 1, 07/2008Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved
Olaf Otto Becker | Above Zero
photo-eye Magazine Becker is a modern day explorer, no less a pioneer than his famous "pole fever" predecessors, from Carsten Borchgrevink, the first Norwegian explorer to set foot in Antarctica, to Ernest Shackleton's well-known Endurance expedition. Between 2003 and 2006, Becker traveled a total of 2,500 miles up and down the coast of Greenland in a rigid inflatable boat...One hundred years from now his photographs may be all that's left to view of this extraordinary world. — From Elizabeth Avedon's photo-eye Review of Above Zero
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