Frozen Light

Frozen Light is a photographic series capturing Arctic sunsets refracted through glacial ice, created during an artist residency on a tall ship in the High Arctic. October 2024.

For most of my creative life, I’ve looked to nature as both a collaborator and a guide. As a composer, I’ve drawn deeply from the movement of water, the silence of fog, and the invisible forces that shape the environment — from oceanic tides to atmospheric light. Frozen Light marks the first time I’m presenting my photography publicly, but the impulse behind the work continues what has long driven my music: reverence for the natural world and the desire to translate its beauty into lasting form.

This series was born during a recent artist residency aboard the tall ship Antigua in the High Arctic (thanks to thearcticcircle.org ). Surrounded by glaciers, I became captivated by the way the Arctic’s long, low sunsets revealed an unexpected collaboration between ice and light.
The late Arctic sun, suspended in fragments of glacial ice sculpted by water, weather, pressure, and time, became an endless source of inspiration and quiet focus. These images are unmanipulated — a direct record of a specific time and place — and a reflection of what is fragile, immense, and vanishing.

I hope Frozen Light offers a moment of stillness — and perhaps reverence — for a landscape increasingly under threat, yet still capable of overwhelming beauty.