Pictures of sleeping giants

Ideas are born. They roll off the assembly line, but few people ever finish them—let alone finish them well. Photographer Kristján Maack does it exceptionally well in his exhibition at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Sleeping Giants. Kristján’s goal with the show is to reveal a world in flux, offering us insight into a realm of melting ice where these “sleeping giants” rise up and vanish just as quickly. For surging glaciers are the outposts of the ice cap itself—places where, after thousands of years of slumber, they awaken and ascend, only to disappear again.
Kristján, who has worked as a photographer for over thirty years, confronts one of the greatest challenges of our time—climate change—with his camera as a weapon. “Climate change is our greatest threat, even when we sleep, for it takes no rest.”