The changing face of explorationFace to Face: Polar Portraits is a new book of pioneering photography, drawing on some of the earliest visual records of polar exploration and modern portraiture
Pen Hadow training for his North Pole solo expedition, Resolute Bay 2003
Photographer Martin Hartley on the frozen ocean, Adventure Ecology Trans Arctic Expedition 2006. "Being a photographer in the polar environment demands that you have to endure the usual levels of discomfort with relative ease if you wish to free up some mental space for creative decisions"
"Emperor and mule", a photograph by Frank Debenham, 1911
Small man, large iceberg, Qikiqtarjuaq, 2004
Pan hopping in Lake Fjord, second British Arctic Air Route expedition 1932-33
British adventure athlete Rosie Stancer in Resolute Bay, 2007
The photographer Herbert Ponting posing for a polar portrait in Antarctica, January 1912. He provided his own caption: "Ponting cooling his head"
Terra Nova framed in the distance from within a cavern in a stranded iceberg, taken by Herbert Ponting in 1911 on Scott's fateful British Antarctic Expedition
Face To Face: Polar Portraits by By Huw Lewis-Jones is published by Scott Polar Research Institute. Further details at
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