Encounter in the Arctic
(circumnavigation of Spitsbergen, 23rd of August – 7th of September 2023)
„The dark oceans were the whombs for life: from the protecting oceans life emerged. We still
bear in our bodies – in our blood, in the salty bitterness of our tears – the marks of this remote past (…)“
Arvid Pardo, Maltese UN Ambassador, United Nations Gerneral Assembly,1967
Carolin Seeliger lays out photographic paper on the deserted beaches and uninhabited islands of Spitsbergen because she does not want to point her camera at the landscape in order to document, limit, or tame it.
Photographic lumenprints with arctic sun, glacier ice, algae, plastics, egg shells and found objects on location, created during the journey round Spitzbergen, on board of expedition boat Cape Race and on the land and coasts of Spitsbergen.
Encounter in the Arctic #01 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic 76°30`N-25°04O, Hopen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #02 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic 76°30`N – 25°04O Hopen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in theArctic #03 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic 76°30`N – 25°04O, Hopen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #07 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic, roof felt, glass 76°30`N – 25°04O, Hopen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #09 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic 77°17,1`N – 21°23,5´E, Tusenoya, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #10 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic 77°17,1`N – 21°23,5´E, Tusenoya, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #15 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic, birch bark 80°02,7`N018°14,0´E, Nordvika, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #16 I-III photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic, storm 80°28,9´N 019°50,6´,E, Chermsideoya Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #18 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic 80°28,9´N 019°50,6´,E, Chermsideoya Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #19 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic, egg shells 77°17,1`N – 21°23,5´E, Tusenoya, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #20 photographic paper, algae, ocean plastic, stones 77°17,1`N – 21°23,5´E, Tusenoya, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #23 I photographic paper, glacier ice, stone 79°37,4‘N 011°28,2‘E, Smeerenburgbreen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #23 II photographic paper, glacier ice 79°37,4‘N 011°28,2‘E, Smeerenburgbreen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #23 III photographic paper, glacier ice 79°37,4‘N 011°28,2‘E, Smeerenburgbreen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #23 IV photographic paper, glacier ice, ocean plastic 79°37,4‘N 011°28,2‘E, Smeerenburgbreen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #23 V photographic paper, glacier ice, ocean plastic 79°37,4‘N 011°28,2‘E, Smeerenburgbreen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023
Encounter in the Arctic #23 VI photographic paper, glacier ice, ocean plastic 79°37,4‘N 011°28,2‘E, Smeerenburgbreen, Spitzbergen 24 x 30,5 cm 2023