ANTARCTICA: The Waking Giant

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Photographer

sebastian copeland
Prize

Book Photographer Of the Year
Company/Studios

Sebastian Copeland Adventures
Date of Photograph

2006-2018
Technical Info

Mixed 6X7 and 6X17 transparencies with FF SLR
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Website

http://scopelandfineart.com

This book documents over a decade's worth of trips on and around Antarctica. While the coast stirs up visions of a lost world, it is the interior that hints to another planet. I spent 84 days crossing its lifeless plateau with no help but skis and kites. Temperatures never warmed above -35C, a challenge on everything, particularly the equipment.My research gave me a deeper perspective on the variations taking place at the hands of climate change. The images I bring back tell the story of a changing environment which spells the oncoming re-drawing of the world’s map, and all that it implicates.

Biography

Sebastian Copeland is a photographer, polar explorer and climate researcher. In 2017, Copeland was named one of the world's top 25 adventurers of the last 25 years. Noted as a photographer “who has produced works that are of outstanding artistic merit and communicates messages of urgent global significance,” Copeland has led numerous expeditions to document at risk environments. He is a fellow of The Explorers Club and sits on the Board of President Gorbachev’s NGO Global Green. His books have sold in over 70 countries. In 2019, Copeland was knighted by French President Macron.
Awards

- 2022 Knighted in the French Order of Arts & Letters - 2019 Knighted by French President Emmanuel Macron in the National Order of Merit - 2018 Bambi Award from Burda Publishing, Germany in the “Unsere Erde” (“Our Earth”) category - 2018 Medal of Light – presented by the cultural Minister of Thailand in Bangkok - 2017 Named one of the Top 25 Adventurers of the last 25 years by Men’s Journal magazine - 2016 International Eckart Witzigmann & BMW Award -- Responsible Engagement - 2016 Tokyo Int'l Award --Photographer of the Year in the book category - 2014 Green Good Design Award --The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design - 2010 Gala Award Germany – Environmental Stewardship - 2009 Global Green—Founders Award - 2009 Commendation for Public Service from the City of West Hollywood - 2008 German GQ Man Of The Year—Engagement