Australian wilderness photographer David Neilson is bringing decades of Antarctic work to Hobart with a striking black and white exhibition now open at the Maritime Museum Tasmania.
Antarctica is Melting presents a selection of photographs drawn from six journeys Neilson made to Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic between 1990 and 2009.
The images capture ice, rock, sea and sky across one of the world’s most remote regions.
He said his style invites viewers to slow down and sit with landscapes many will never see in person.
“Black and white photography has remained my favourite medium,” he told Wilderness Journal.
“The stripping away of colour can reveal shape and form with significant and timeless clarity.”
“Many snow and ice scenes look their finest in black and white and it is thus an especially appropriate medium for Antarctica.”
“Plus it provides distant echoes and a continuum back to the photographs taken during the heroic era of polar exploration.”
The museum said Hobart has a long maritime connection to the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic region through research vessels, institutions and its working waterfront.
The exhibition taps directly into that relationship, asking visitors to consider Antarctica as both a place of extraordinary beauty and a region whose future demands attention.
Antarctica is Melting is showing at Maritime Museum Tasmania until November 1.
