Stuart Klipper has traveled to Antarctica six times in twenty years to photograph this astounding body of work, offering a sweeping look at this majestic continent, which has lately become central to global climate change concerns.
Shot in panoramic format the only way to encompass a landscape that seems to stretch on forever, Klipper's work captures major features and surprising details: ships suspended in the frozen sea, glowing blue icebergs, vistas of endless snow, and troops of penguins. Klipper is trying to capture the tension between heaven and earth, which feel so close together in the Antarctic.
He also underscores the loneliness of the place; not a single photo in his book shows a human being. There are icebergs and glaciers, penguins and seals, planes and boats, even footprints - but no people.


"The Antarctic is the closest I'll ever be to getting extraterrestrial. I grew up in the '50s dreaming about building spaceships and going to other parts of the solar system."
"I wanted to get to the deepest understandings of what it is like in the inner recesses of your soul to feel a place like this."
- Stuart D. Klipper

Klipper made most of his trips to the Antarctic thanks to a National Science Foundation program, which sends a handful of artists and writers to field stations and camps at the South Pole in the summer months. Then it only gets down into the -30s, as opposed to the winter months, when it can dip down to almost -100 degrees.