The Elemental Series
The opening
This edition is part of the "A Glacier’s Breath" series, a visual archive of exhaled time.
Each frame captures air that’s been trapped beneath the ice for centuries to millennia, now released by light, but still held by pressure.
These are not just photographs of ice.
They are fossils of atmosphere. Echoes of ancient climates. The breath of a world that no longer exists.
A deep dive into the heart of CryoFunghus, this close-up reveals the moment of entry, where surface tension breaks, and the breath begins.
The edges soften, light deepens, and suddenly we are inside the memory.
This shot felt like crossing a threshold, as if the glacier was letting me in, just for a second.
It’s the beginning of the story, the inhale before time stopped.
- ArtistGuillaume Martin Kollibay
- GenreMacro Photography
- CameraSony A7III
- LensSony 24-105mm G
- GlacierBreiðamerkurjökull
- LocationIceland
- LicenseExtended Editorial