The Formidable Beauty of Warming Landscapes

Fernando Moleres’s project ‘Melting Landscapes’ reduces the Arctic region’s vast vistas—towering icebergs, massive glaciers, snow-swept ice sheets—to their most minimal elements.
From August 2014 to October 2015, Moleres made several trips to Greenland and Iceland to photograph places most vulnerable to the effects of a warming planet. His goal was both to make a statement about climate change and to capture the aesthetic beauty of these monochromatic landscapes, to show the “hardness and, at the same time, the fragility of the Arctic.”