The Unstable Beauty Of Ice

By Edge of Humanity Magazine, August 17, 2021

Photographer Massimo Lupidi is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘FROZEN IN THE DARK’. To see Massimo’s body of work, click on any image.

Ice can create some of the most beautiful and fascinating winter wonderland sights. The formation of ice is subject to a million different variables, and the tiniest change in humidity, temperature, or wind speed can create an assortment of natural phenomena. Dark and bright, peculiar hues in a monochrome wild environment in addition to the combination with the tones of the sky. Icebergs can be seen in all shapes and sizes: from surfaces or walls without an apparent limit and columns that seem sculpted by an artist. An iceberg, a cave ice, it is like being inside a diamond, where a wide range of blues glows, from dark to brightest.

An amazing experience around the Vatnajökull region, in Iceland, one of the largest glaciers in Europe. A precise instance when the ice formation has reached its peak, only to know that minutes later its beauty will transform, a unique way to explore the subtlety of nature, a unique world mysterious, wondrous, delicate and ephemeral.