Ellen Dahl, a Sydney-based artist from Arctic Norway, has won the $30,000 National Photography Prize from the Murray Art Museum Albury , for her work exploring climate change in the Arctic., Nathan Beard and Ali Tahayori. It's a series of four prints, titled Four Days Before Winter, and part of the artist's larger project Field Notes from the Edge, which explores peripheral spaces including Svalbard in Norway and Tasmania.
One large image from Dahl's series, Collapse, is a close-up of a collapsed terrain caused by melting permafrost. It's printed on fabric and hangs from the gallery ceiling, moving slightly.Three photographs in the series were taken in the abandoned Soviet mining town of Pyramiden. For Two Sides of the Same Place, a black mountain, once the site of coal mining, is presented on one side of a piece of fabric and a nearby shrinking glacier on the other.
"It's such a contradicting concept to have coal mining in the most vulnerable area of the world when it comes to climate change. Climate change is happening incredibly fast up there," says Dahl.Dahl is descended from the Sámi, the Indigenous peoples of the northernmost parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
"I hope people see it maybe from a slightly different perspective and different light and feel something," she says.
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