The Lifecycle of Ice
Photographed and written during my tenure as Oceanographic Magazine’s Storyteller in Residence (2024-2025)
It all begins with a snowflake. A tiny fingerprint of an era tumbling through grey skies, water vapour locked-up into microscopic crystals, before settling on the frozen freshwater mass beneath. They fall, one by one, until under the weight of a trillion snowflakes more it transforms into an ice mass, frozen in time. Until now.There is no better window into the state of impermanence of our world than Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat). Situated in the Arctic Ocean and warming at more than twice the global rate over the last half a century, Greenland has become a microcosm of global climate change as the impacts of glacial ice loss reverberate through every level of the ecosystem – from icecap to ocean.
