stunning ice: the photographs of noriko furunishi

fine art japanese photographer noriko furunishi has a series of amazing ice landscape photos in the current issue (#37) of blind spot magazine.


if you look closely, you can see tiny climbers and their ropes. i don't think i've seen ice look this beautiful.

from gallery notes: "furunishi’s recent works portray the drama of the great american landscape. in this new series, furunishi turns away from the vibrant colors of southern california and presents a world almost entirely in black and white. ice park, shot in the snowy peaks of colorado, is a group of seven images that make up one single panoramic tableau, but are each discrete photographs. furunishi’s pictures seem to unravel western conventions of landscape depictions. rather than horizontal, they have a vertical orientation and lack a horizon line, sharing something with traditional japanese and chinese landscape painting. digital tapestries stitched together from views taken at varying distance and perspective, their field of vision is compressed and the images are uniformly high-definition. rather than provide a fixed point of view, they invite the viewer’s eye to wander restlessly across the photograph, allowing the image to recede freely and advance. in their topsy-turvy dismissal of a single, coherent perspective, furunishi’s photographs radically destabilize our experience of the world, challenging our natural assumption that the earth beneath our feet is enduring and immutable."