Ragnar Axelsson: Last Days of the Arctic

by Mark Nuttall, Ragnar Axelsson (Photographer)

Ragnar Axelsson is one of Iceland's best-known photojournalists. For over 15 years, he has been documenting people in the North Atlantic. In this book of nearly 200 photographs, Axelsson turns his lens on the Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on earth. Axelsson's gorgeous photographs, mostly in black and white, show vast glaciers, sleds gliding across ice, and houses mostly buried in snow, but they also depict how the Inuit's way of life is transforming drastically as a result of climate change, prefiguring the enormous changes that are on their way to the rest of the world.

Genres: Photography, Art

272 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 2011

Reviews

[Michael]

This is one of the most impressive photography books I've ever read. The context built by Mark Nuttall's essays is helpful, but the stories that Axelsson tells of the hunts he attended had my heart pounding through their few short paragraphs.
And the photography itself is second to none. Axelsson is a master visual storyteller.

[Daga]

I accidently happened to see this exhibition and I couldn't resist buying this book. Awe inspiring and thoughts provoking photos from my beloved place. A perfect combination. It's a wonderful book :D