Cold Photo Blog

I was recently contacted (via a comment on a blog posting) by Laurel McFadden, who is currently part of the way through a year long photography project funded by a grant available to students in the USA. Here is the background to the project.

Laurel McFadden, Pomona College
Life in the Midnight Sun and Polar Night: Images of Arctic Survival
Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia
My project involves a photographic examination of social and personal strength in a variety of cultures coping with the extremes of the Arctic. Through photographic imagery, I will document patterns of communication, tradition, emotion, and social interaction as I participate in each community living through a stage of the Arctic seasons. The project will entail capturing and effectively sharing the experience of living in the Arctic, displaying not only my personal experiences but also the social patterns of communities working successfully in climatic extremes.

There are some fantastic images there already, and in January, Laurel moves to Longyearbyen on Svalbard where she will be documenting life there in the winter months.
Here are 2 earlier images from Canada: icebergs calving and a wonderful natural ice arch.Images courtesy of Laurel McFadden
For more pictures, check out the COLD PHOTO blog HERE, and I look forward to the Svalbard images in 2007.
Best of luck with the project Laurel !