Gallery: Beautifully Bleak Photos of Antarctica's Enormous Icebergs

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    Sans Nom is photographer and science journalist Jean de Pomereu's meditation on the monumental — but temporary — icebergs of Antarctica.
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    With his photographic work, De Pomereu is interested in the changing public consciousness about Antarctica, from an imagined land in previous centuries to the very real place where important science is done today, albeit still far removed from most people's day-to-day attention.
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    The iceberg portraits in Sans Nom are abstract, almost impressionistic, as reminiscent of broad brush strokes as they are hardened mountains of ice.
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    "Antarctica is uninhabited," says de Pomereu, "It doesn’t belong to anyone. It doesn’t have an indigenous population, and really the majority of what goes on down there is science, so whether you’re talking about artistic images or scientific images, it all sort of knots together in the scientific realm."
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    The diffuse light in Sans Nom was captured in the early morning hours of a single day in the Antarctic summer, when the sun is always above the horizon.
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    The photographer traveled to Antarctica on a Chinese ice breaker to visit and report on the work of researchers.
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    De Pomereu traveled from berg to berg on a ski-doo piloted by a Russian researcher.
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    Despite the temptation to draw in the issue of climate change, de Pomereu says the epic ice crack that punctuates the series was more a sign of the coming of summer, and a reminder of the impermanence of the vast ice scape as it prepares to dissolve back into the sea.
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    In Antarctica, objects tend to lose their sense of scale, an effect the photographer hoped to convey with his abstracted impressions of the icebergs.
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