• Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting
  • Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting

Ragnar Axelsson Where the World is Melting

For over 40 years, Ragnar Axelsson (b. 1958) has photographed people, animals, and landscapes in the most remote regions of Greenland, Iceland, and Siberia. In simple black and white photos, he captures the elementary human experience in nature on the edge of the habitable world. Axelsson highlights the extraordinary relationships between people, animals, and places in the Arctic and their extreme environment – relationships that change in profound and complex ways due to unprecedented climate change.
Following Arctic Heroes (2020), Where the World is Melting is Ragnar Axelsson’s second publication with Kehrer Verlag and includes, among others, the well-known series Faces of the North, Glacier, and Last Days of the Arctic as well as a previously unpublished series.

This book, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, offers a first personal look at Ragnar Axelsson’s life’s work.


Hardcover with German booklet 24,5 x 29,4 cm 224 pages 149 duotone illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-96900-064-9 2021

Artist:

Ragnar Axelsson

Texts:

Ragnar Axelsson, Isabel Siben

Design:

Einar Geir Ingvarsson


Preview

Exhibitions

Prix Pictet 2022: Human
Pinakothek der Moderne, München
06.11. – 24.11.2024

Arctic Heroes
Leica Galerie Düsseldorf, Germay
10.11.2023 – 29.02.2024  

Prix Pictet 2022: Human
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
September 2023

Where the World is Melting
PHOXXI. HAUS DER PHOTOGRAPHIE TEMPORÄR, Hamburg
17.03. - 18.06.2023

Arctic Heroes – Where the world is melting
Leica Galerie Zingst
30.09. – 15.12.2022

Down North (Group Exhibition)
Portland Museum of Art, USA
18.02. – 05.06.2022

Ragnar Axelsson. Where the World is Melting
Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung München
15.12.2021 – 18.04.2022

Where the World is Melting
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
30.01. – 09.05.2021

Reviews

The New Yorker, 28.12.2021

ARTE Journal, 05.01.2022

Zeit online, 14.02.2022

titel thesen temperamente, 02.04.2023

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