Olaf Otto Becker "Above Zero"
Amador Gallery
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Following "Broken Line," a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker (born in Travemünde, Germany in 1959) turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero. Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Becker's spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening treks among glacial crevasses and melting ice floes, with a cumbersome large-format camera. His photo studies draw out the overwhelming beauty of this icy landscape, while documenting their present fragility: dust and rust in the air form black, crusty deposits, which, in conjunction with global warming, accelerate the melting of the ice sheets--with what will probably be inevitable, catastrophic results. Becker warns that even in these uninhabited regions, human actions can have fatal consequences.
[Image: Olaf Otto Becker "River 1, Position 13, 07/2007" (2007) archival pigment print]
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Schedule
from November 10, 2009 to January 09, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-11-10 from 18:00 to 20:00