"Axelsson's new book, Where the World is Melting, applies this journalistic rigor and sensibility to a personal project documenting the indelible impacts of a warming planet from Greenland to Siberia. In grainy black and white, snow-covered tundras and misty shorelines strikingly glimpse an environment in flux. One image in particular reveals a cloud of steam emanating from the melting Kötlujökull glacier in Iceland."
"Where the World is Melting focuses on the aging farmers, sled teams, and Indigenous populations all grappling with both drastic changes to their homelands and the traditions they've practiced for generations. "What does the future hold for the reindeer herders living in the tundra? Nobody really knows," Axelsson tells . "A photograph is only a small piece in the jigsaw that makes up the big picture, but sometimes it is these small pieces that open our eyes to the broader reality.""
Ragnar Axelsson spent 44 years as a photojournalist and captures moments that reveal life in communities. Where the World is Melting documents impacts of warming from Greenland to Siberia with grainy black-and-white images of snow-covered tundras and misty shorelines. Photographs show steam from the melting Kötlujökull glacier in Iceland and portray aging farmers, sled teams, and Indigenous peoples facing landscape change and threatened traditions. The work asks what the future holds for reindeer herders in the tundra and presents photographs as small pieces that reveal broader environmental realities.
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