Tristan Duke Glacial Optics

[warden]

“I went as an artist, seeking to craft functioning camera lenses from the ice of the glaciers, to capture portraits of this rapidly melting landscape through its own ice.”

Glacial Optics - Arctic Expedition — Tristan Duke

www.tristanduke.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/arts/design/tristan-duke-artist-california.html?searchResultPosition=1

 

[Chuck1]

That is cool
No pun

 

[warden]

I have no idea what he’s doing here or how, but I’d be interested in learning more. From the NYT article after the author found a microscope with tiny images on glass slides:


“I’ve been experimenting with microminiature photography,” which as he went on to describe required that he develop both new techniques for hyper-reducing imagery but also new coating emulsions with grains even tinier than the wavelength of light capable of capturing such images.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Kinda like those uranium-toned prints of above ground atomic bomb tests.