Stella Polaris* Ulloriarsuaq
In November 2012, the photographers Nomi Baumgartl and Sven Nieder, the filmmaker Yatri N. Niehaus, and the Greenlander guide Laali Lyberth travelled to the west of Greenland.
As early as the Sixties, Greenlanders saw the first signs of what would later be known as climate change. An encounter between the photographers and local shamans, who call for a better way of dealing with our nature, formed the seed for STELLA POLARIS. Together with Greenlandic ‘light ambassadors’ who illuminated the icebergs with bright flashlights, the team literally wrote a message in light. Despite the extreme conditions for man and materials, Baumgartl, Nieder and Niehaus returned with unique images of an irreversibly changing landscape.
