Chasing Ice: The Memory of Landscape
Posted on November 19th, 2012
![Chasing Ice glacier melt](https://stellakramer.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-19-at-10.49.31-AM-150x150.png)
Until Hurricane Sandy came through New York, I always thought about climate change in a disassociated kind of way. It is obvious to me that it is a serious problem with catastrophic effects, but I don’t think I really grasped the full extent of what is happening to the planet until I saw “Chasing Ice,” Jeff Orlowski’s film about James Balog’s project recording the disappearing glaciers. I first came to photographer James Balog’s work when I saw his book, “Anima,”…