Peter Geraerts - Relentless Erosion (Svalbard)
53 x 35.5 cm, archival pigment print, edition of 25, 2014
Left to its own devices nature produces shapes and form with beautiful textures. The snow and ice fill the crevices as they tumble down the mountainside.
In the later afternoon, Peter was drawn to the contrast of the light, both warm and cold, the texture, smooth and rough and the symmetry it provided.
He sees it demonstrating a link between the seasons with the warmth of the fading summer sunlight against the light covering of snow as winter approaches.
Peter Geraerts
Peter is a photographer and environmentalist. His work discusses our precious natural landscape, our impact on the planet and the positive benefits of the wilderness on our wellbeing. Inspired as a boy by pioneering explorers, he has gone on to visit some of the most remote parts of our planet. Despite seeing evidence of retreating sea ice and tonnes of plastic getting into the food chain, he has chosen to provoke change by focusing on the raw beauty of the wilderness at the planet’s fringes.