Author Talk with Photographer, Leonard Sussman

Sussman discusses his trip on the Healy in September and October of 2022, as detailed in his book, From Brooklyn to the North Pole.
About this Event

Martin Kaninsky in "About Photography," writes:
In From Brooklyn To The North Pole, [Leonard Sussman] follows a 52-day journey on the USCGC icebreaker Healy, traveling from Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands to the North Pole.

His photographs show the Arctic as a place of beauty, science, and deep uncertainty. They also show how climate change is already touching landscapes that many of us will never see in person.
This book is about what it means to look at a changing place.

Sussman combines wide Arctic landscapes with photographs of the scientists and crew working on the ship. He came back with around 4,000 images and shaped them into a book that moves through the journey, the research, and the fragile world around them. In this conversation, he talks about how the project began, what it was like to photograph from an icebreaker, and why the photographer's role is to document what is there and what is disappearing. The result is a quiet but urgent portrait of the Arctic today.

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