Antarctica The

Tourist Gaze & The Sound of Climate Change

Lisa M. Sadler

MA Photography

PHO740 Collaboration

& Professional Locations

Colin Pantell

Falmouth University

Penryn, Cornwall

Statement of Intent

In the past six-months, I acquired 35mm slides of tour trips to Antarctica. With climate change destroying the planet, especially this once immaculate continent, I started noticing similarities. Much like Antarctica, these images represent several things.

Abandonment; these discarded and forgotten images are a stark reminder of how we treat the continent.

The materiality of the image, fading away, falling apart and covered in dust and dirt, cannot be saved. We can try to scan it to preserve it or tape it; unless we restrain from handling the image, it will fall apart.

Much like ownership, these memories of someone else's yesterday can no longer exist. Only to be acquired from creating new memories.

Tourism: Tourists are responsible for the destruction of this once uncorrupted environment. The images are from tours taken during the 1970s through the early 1990s. It's easy to get lost and forget the age of the image. Imagine how much has changed in the past four decades