Should you watch Chasing Ice?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Chasing Ice
Documentary · 2012
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
The sides of Chasing Ice
- Photographer James Balog and his time-lapse cameras
- Glaciers melting year after year
- Cameras left in the Arctic cold
Chasing Ice is good for you if…
- you like the Arctic and Greenland's huge glaciers.
- you like years of ice shrinking caught in a single shot.
- you want to feel how small we are next to a calving glacier.
Chasing Ice is bad for you if…
- you need some hope, and watching the ice disappear weighs on you.
- you want more than a photographer waiting on the ice.
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