'THE big ice is sick,"These words, spoken by an old Inuit hunter, capture for photographer Ragnar Axelsson the tragedy of the disappearing Arctic. Over the last 25 years Axelsson has made many visits to the frigid wilderness from his home in Iceland, His new exhibition, Last Days of the Arctic, is his attempt to document a dying land. Axelsson travelled the austere landscape of remote Greenland and Canada by traditional dog sled, often crawling at 5 kilometres per hourat -40 ℃, "You're fighting the cold and wind, just watching white ice over and over. If s a long time between some action."
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