ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photo was taken in June 2017, as I was visiting the Rhône glacier, at the Furka's pass in the Swiss Alps. This is where the famous Rhône river takes its roots, before heading to the Mediterranean see in south France.
I was completely taken by the surreal beauty of it - it was a rainy day - but at the same time I was weirdly annoyed by the scene I saw:
The glacier is partly draped in white cloths to prevent it from melting too fast. It is totally surreal, to see the vast glacier covered at its end by hundreds of cloths. It is also a quite comic situation: as if human being can control the ice melt...

I chose this photograph, as it has two meanings: if you look quickly, it appears just as a glacier, but as you look closer, you begin to see the draping. I am hoping with this photo to bring consciousness in people's minds, regarding the fragility of our planet.

AUTHOR
After graduating in 2003 (certificate of laboratory photographer, Vevey, Switzerland), I worked in London mainly in fashion/beauty photography, until returning to my alpine roots, in Valais, Switzerland.
I left the fashion world behind me in 2007, and re-orientated my photography to more authentic and natural images. Today, after 13 years back in Switzerland, I dedicate my time between two passions: I am a freelance mountain leader and a photographer. I mostly spend time shooting for my own pleasure and working on personal artistic projects.

In 2018 I travelled to Greenland to shoot 8x10 black&white film & digital for a personnal artistic project: to create giant cyanotypes 1 meter wide. I am currently exhibiting my latest Greenland images, all cyanotypes, in Switzerland and France.

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