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Position 660, 2, 08/2008 – 67° 09′ 04” N, 50° 01′ 5844 W, Altitude 360 ??m. We are in Greenland, at the end of a 35 km long road built by Volkswagen to test new vehicles, a project abandoned because of lack of market options. Now the longest route in Greenland is converted to tourist use, bringing the curious ones from the town of Kangerlussuaq to see the global warming ”for themselves”.

Photographer committed to the environment, Olaf Otto Becker left on foot with his 20 x 25 camera and brave heart to immerse into Greenland to map out the state of the icecap, this huge cold desert covering 80% of the island. Equipped with satellite images from NASA, he traces his way through the ice and through time, establishing a photographic study of this constantly changing territory. His photographs are dissipating there like markers in a labyrinth of white, pierced with crevasses and lakes, crossed by streams and cracks, shaded by dust and soot; so many consequences and residuals of human activities yet practiced so far away.

From this journey in this world which is as fascinating as it’s inhospitable, Olaf Otto Becker draws the spectacular portrait of a suspended landscape; because under the triple threat of pollution, global warming and tourism, this land which is too remote, too cold, too far, too beautiful, too big, in short, out of the ordinary, is really threatened with ecological disaster.

Olaf Otto Becker was born in Lübeck-Travemünde (Germany) in 1959. Today, he lives near Lake Starnberger (Germany). He studied communication and design in Augsburg, then philosophy and theology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.