Huxley Parlour is high on my list of favourite galleries to visit in London, with some amazing exhibitions and free entry!
With my second year finished and the Summer stretching ahead, it was great to be able to enjoy the luxury of a few days staying with my daughter in London, and this was one exhibition I really wanted to see.
This is his first UK solo exhibition, and features more than 20 colour images from Broken Line and Ilulissat, which focus on the effects of climate change. The series were made between 2003 and 2017, shot whilst travelling across the western coast of Greenland. The images feature huge icebergs, set alongside images of brightly painted settlements - a clear statement about the relationship between the fragility of the melting arctic landscape and the people living and working there.
Becker worked alone, using a large format camera and travelling in a rubber raft, and his images carry that sense of isolation and quiet still observation, and the enormity of his narrative. He has seen at first hand over the years he has been travelling in the area, the effects of climate change. It’s a sobering, but beautiful, body of work, carrying an enormous message.
