Lakes Of Our Making

2017-
Photo series

Lakes Of Our Making takes Sólheimajökull, a long outlet glacier from the Mýrdalsjökull icecap in Southern Iceland, as its subject matter. Through comparison photos, we are confronted with its accelerated melting due to global warming. The first set of photographs was taken in 2017, and within only four years, the glacier terminus has visibly retreated (at a rate of around 70m per year) and enlarged its proglacial lake, a body of water which had not been in existence before 2007. The dark, foggy atmosphere of the 2021 photos even emphasises the climate emergency and the looming disappearance of the Icelandic glaciers. The analytical approach to immortalising the large area that the lake covers and the short span between visits to the site, the series emphasises not only the rapid melting of this glacier but takes it as a cautionary tale for many other fast-dying glaciers in Iceland. It is expected that the Sólheimajökull glacier will completely disappear within the next two to three decades. This is an ongoing series that aims to document its last years.