From Antarctica To Alaska, Adrift Is Magda Biernat’s Photographic Investigation Into Climate Change

“Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison,” Biernat explains. In the series, the New York and Paris-based photographer captured the organic and inorganic structures that have succumbed to the effects of a warming planet. Images of Antarctic icebergs and empty Iñupiat Eskimo hunting cabins are paired one after the other to offer visual commentary on the parallel effects of global climate change, at the very opposite ends of the Earth. “Average temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic regions are rising twice as fast as they are elsewhere in the world,” she says. “The rising temperatures are causing more icebergs to break off from glacial floes; polar ice is getting thinner, melting, and rupturing. As they drift, the city-block-sized icebergs will disappear at a faster rate than ever before.”