Livingston I Presume IV - XIII

This series of photographs explores the question of the colonialist idea of exploration.  These images, taken of the Glacier at Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands Antarctica show the glacier through the view of the single lens of a telescope. This instrument provided the vision of how all explorers saw the visual beauty of a new discovery. The questions that I wish to raise from these images are

The title of these photographs reflects the colonialist explorer; however, I question whether just because we can exploit the inaccessible areas of our planet does this mean we should. Should these images be the way we see remote places such as this… at arm’s length never putting our foot on terra-firma? 

The image is in its original space in the visual plane and has not been altered, the shift in placement is a reflection of the movement of the ship from which they were taken.