photo-eye Magazine: Olaf Otto Becker | Above Zero Book Review

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, 07/2008
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

Olaf Otto Becker | Above Zero

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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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OLAF OTTO BECKER: Above Zero

ILULISSAT ICEFJORD 5, 07/2003
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

RIVER 1, POSITION 13, 07/2007
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

INLANDEIS 5, 08/2008
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

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ALESSANDRA MENICONZI: Sacred Stones

EASTERN TIBET - SICHUAN PROVINCE (click enlarge)
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CHINA - INNER MONGOLIA - GOBI DESERT
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INDIAN HIMALAYA - ZANSKAR VALLEY
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EASTERN TIBET - SICHUAN PROVINCE
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EASTERN TIBET - SICHUAN PROVINCE
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CHINA - GUIZHOU PROVINGE - HMONG MINORITY
(The Long-horn Miao-a small branch living near Zhijin County)
Copyright (c) Alessandra Meniconzi /All Rights Reserved

"I prefer remote and rugged places, mountainous terrain and desert. I love to find people who can manage to survive in these places, to discover and record their ancient way of life before they are changed by the modern era."

ALESSANDRA MENICONZI is an adventurous Swiss photographer shooting in remote regions of the world. A trip to India at 21 sparked over a decade of exploration of cultures on the ancient trade routes. Her books include Hidden China, Mystic Iceland, The Silk Road, and she is currently working on books about the Tibet, Himalaya, and the Arctic.

Alessandra Meniconzi Gallery
Arctic Trek Greenland I Greenland II Greenland III
Mani Stone Inscriptions
The Long-horned Miao Headress
Canon Interview