The magazine of the art-form of the photo-essay
June 2016 issue
by Bernhard Edmaier
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“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
Water, like no other natural element, leaves its indelible mark on the surface of the
earth. Fluid, frozen to ice or gaseous as steam it forms and shapes landscape anew
everywhere in the world.
Without water no valley or canyon, no mountain top, delta or flood flat, no island,
shore or coast would exist, not even dunes in the desert. Even sand is a product of
water – streaming water and creeping glacier ice sand down the rocks. The wind
accumulates the sand to dunes. Water circulating deep in the earth’s crust can
provoke volcanic eruptions.
The climate change will influence the water’s distribution all over the world and
thereby alter many regions. Deserts will spread but also shrink. Permafrost soil in
Arctic regions will thaw, the most glaciers in the mountains will retreat as well as the
ice masses at the poles. The sea level will increase globally and change the coast
lines.
The photo book shows water – the most important resource and source of all life on earth – from its so far little
explored side, namely the most important landscape-forming power on our planet.
Alligator River, Australia.
Awash River, Ethiopia.
Baa Atoll, Maldives.
Bering Glacier, Alaska.
Breaking sea ice, Arctic.
Exuma Cays, Bahamas.
Frozen lake, Switzerland.
Grand Prismatic Spring, USA.
Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska.
Retreating glacier, Switzerland.
River Tagliamento, Italy.
River Thjorsa, Iceland.
River Tollense, Germany.
Submarine sand dunes, Bahamas.
Thawing permafrost soil, Sibiria
Viedma Glacier, Argentina.