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Nigardsbreen, Plate I, Norway, Caleb Cain Marcus, 2011

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“Nigardsbreen, Plate I, Norway, 2011.”

Ice Age

Caleb Cain Marcus’s new book, A Portrait of Ice, depicts the glaciers of Patagonia, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand and Alaska.

“Perito Moreno, Plate I, Patagonia, 2010.”

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Caleb Cain Marcus’s series ‘A Portrait of Ice’ – investigating glacial landscapes in a personal poetic journey in subtle blue, gray and cyan, as a part of our collective memory through million years history of the earth.

“When I am on a glacier there is a moment when the vast beauty enters me. And for that moment, the glacier is capable of shifting human consciousness and altering the reoccurring hum of reality. It is only you and the ice. A shard of something that has accidentally entered into this world. Then the ice screws’ melodic chime brings you out of one trance and into another.”

These photographs of glaciers of Patagonia, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand and Alaska, with painterly quality and no horizon, shift the perspective in a sense of losing the scale and raise awareness about environmental issues. ”Living in the city it easy to forget about the land; to forget that our history is held within the ice; that our history is melting. The Inuit elders say the melting of the ice is the land crying out in pain. Now we must listen.”

The series is collected in a photo book published by Damiani.

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Perito Moreno, Plate I, 2010. Patagonia. © Caleb Cain Marcus. Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/caleb-cain-marcus-photos-of-glaciers-on-a-disappearing-horizon-6723500/#UQL4pd7H5Vf2rJDA.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter 

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Caleb Cain Marcus: Goddess (Ganges River)

via lensculture: Caleb Cain Marcus' new book, "Goddess," is about a 1,500-mile trip along the Ganges river. Whether visible in each photograph or not, it is the river that runs through and binds together the project, guiding us from spectral, heaven-reaching stalks, to hazy modern constructions and boundless vistas of countless tiny yet impassioned believers, prostrating themselves in the holy water of the river they call "Ganga."

[…] The Ganges river is named after a goddess, Ganga. This honorific conveys how deeply important these waters are to the Indian people: not only do they serve as a vehicle for an ascent to the heavens but they also irrigate the crops, help in the creation of bricks, and serve as the resting place for cremated remains. In short, the river is life and death and everything in between.

"Space, the immaterial element that connects the universe, can appear almost invisible and yet there are exceptional moments when the façade of our reality dissolves to give way to something extraordinary and obviously interwoven." 

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Beautifully Atmospheric Photos Explore the Essence of the Ganges River

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Interview: Beautifully Atmospheric Photos Explore the Essence of the Ganges River

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New York-based photographer Caleb Cain Marcus traveled the 1,500 miles of the Ganges River, winding through India and Bangladesh and capturing life and landscapes around the river through fog and ethereal light. Goddess, out now from Damiani, includes 48 of his images that explore the importance of the river as a spiritual and life-supporting resource.

Capturing the Ganges River through Foggy Mists