TITLE: Adrift

Jokulsarlon, a glacial lagoon in south-eastern Iceland, may seem ancient in appearance but in reality it was formed only eighty years ago. Due to the rise in global temperatures, the retreat of the Vatnajokull glacier, the largest in Europe, in addition to forming the lagoon, feeds it constantly making it grow continuously. Icebergs that detach from the glacier, falling into the water, wander adrift and aimlessly, even for years, inside the lagoon and then take the road to the ocean or finally run aground on the black lava beaches lapping the mouth of the river Jokulsa, that connects the ocean to the lagoon itself. With the fog this place has a dreamlike and surreal atmosphere, as in a silent dream and out of time. The icebergs, that calmly float in these waters or stop on the black beaches smoothed by the wind and the water, seem ice sculptures whose destiny is to wander eternally in oblivion to the ends of the world or to slowly consumed themselves to the rhythm of a nature without haste and indifferent.

AUTHOR: Lorenzo Fontana (Italy)

I am an Italian photographer and I began to take an interest in this medium a few years ago, discovering, almost by chance, its enormous potential. Since then, I have not stopped shooting and, I hope, improving ("Your first 10,000 photos are the worst!"). Travelling it has become the inseparable companion of adventures because symbolically it unites two things that seem to be made for each other and that share a common spirit: the desire for discovery.

Photography is the memory of other worlds, a gaze that privileges and multiplies the complexity of the existing, testimony and representation of existence itself. To frame, to shoot, means to choose between the infinite possibilities with which the things of the world are continually revealed, educating the eye to observe them. Among my favorite subjects are animal life and the natural world, landscapes, but also portraits especially set.