Award-winning photographer Louie Palu will install a series of large format photographs frozen in large ice blocks on the plaza of the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 10 a.m. The photographs were created in the Arctic over the course of three years while Palu was on assignment for National Geographic. The project explores the evolving situation related to the geopolitics of the Arctic, it’s history, and climate change.

This project was supported by the Harry Ransom Center, Joan Morgenstern, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Geographic & Pulitzer Center.

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