Photographer Ragnar Axelsson captures an austere waning world beautifully in his exhibition Last Days of the Arctic
Last Days of the Arctic by Ragnar Axelsson runs at the Proud Chelsea gallery in London until 11 March
“THE big ice is sick.” These words, spoken by an old Inuit hunter, capture for photographer Ragnar Axelsson the tragedy of the disappearing Arctic. Over the last 25 years Axelsson has made many visits to the frigid wilderness from his home in Iceland. His new exhibition, Last Days of the Arctic, is his attempt to document a dying land.
Axelsson travelled the austere landscape…
