Sailing the Icebergs

Sailing the Icebergs

Ilulissat, Greenland

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  • 16×24″ — $540
  • 24×36″ — $1,100
  • 30×45″ — $1,800
  • 40×60″ — $3,200
Sailing the Icebergs shown in a living room

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The Story Behind This Print

This was shot in Disko Bay, on the west coast of Greenland near Ilulissat — home to the Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004. The fjord is fed by the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, one of the fastest-moving and most productive glaciers on Earth; it’s believed the iceberg that sank the Titanic originated here.

We sailed out among the icebergs in small red sailboats — the color wasn’t an accident, since a red sail reads as a sharp, saturated contrast against the pale blue-white of the ice in a way almost nothing else does. Some of these bergs are genuinely massive, calved off a glacier that puts more ice into the ocean each year than almost anywhere else outside Antarctica.

Each print begins as a Lumachrome exposure on metallic photographic paper, then is face-mounted beneath acrylic for extraordinary depth and color. Most images can also be custom-sized up to 120″ on the longest side — just ask.

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