Naked Glaciers

  • BODY OF WORK
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  • EXHIBITIONS
  • PRESS & MEDIA
  • ANIA FREINDORF
  • THE SEVEN CONTINENTS
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  • IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
  • NOMINATIONS
  • FINE ART PRINTS
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NAKED GLACIERS (2017–ongoing) A photographic and cinematic body of work documenting disappearing glaciers across continents.  

The project is conceived as a long-term expedition across the seven continents, with current work developed in France, Switzerland, and Italy, and future expeditions including Kilimanjaro, home to Africa’s last remaining glaciers. The work explores the relationship between the human body, ice, and landscape transformation. Glaciers are approached not only as geological formations, but as unstable environments where presence, fragility, and disappearance coexist. Through photography and cinematography, the work creates immersive visual narratives that move between ground-based observation and aerial perspectives. These images reveal both the monumental scale of glaciers and their accelerating transformation. Ice becomes surface, architecture, and abstraction — a landscape in constant negotiation between permanence and dissolution.

EDITIONS The work is developed as a limited edition system aligned with the seven continents concept. Each artwork exists in strictly limited editions, reinforcing the global scope and conceptual structure of the project.

WORKING PROCESS The practice combines photography and film made in situ in high-altitude environments. It includes:
● ground-based field work
● aerial perspectives (drone / helicopter)
● cinematic landscape sequences
● close-up studies of ice formations
● long-term expedition-based documentation The resulting works form an evolving visual archive of glacial environments in transformation.

OUTCOME The project unfolds across multiple formats:
● photographic exhibitions
● fine art prints in limited
editions
● cinematic works
● a long-term visual archive

NOTE Naked Glaciers is an ongoing body of work initiated in 2017.
It is conceived as a global expedition across the seven continents.