ABOUT
I am a writer, photographer and Professor Emeritus of English and the environmental humanities at the University of Alberta. Decades of mountaineering at home in the Canadian Rockies and abroad in the Andes, Altai and Himalayas have long-shaped my frames of perception and modes of exposure. Trading altitude for latitude and high adventure for reflective nomadism, I now find myself northbound across the collapsing cryosphere. Reconnaissance and repeat trips to Arctic Canada and Scandinavia reorient my sense of place to circumpolar realities and the extreme forefronts of global warming. I use photography to make perceptible the weathering, changing, affecting landscape and the creative resilience of people who strive to continue to live on the land.
Arctic Circlings is a constellation of photo-poetic meditations on my travels around Greenland (2024, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015), Iceland (2017, 2015, 2014), Svalbard and northern Norway (2022, 2016, 2015, 2014), Alaska (2023), Yukon and Northwest Territories (2017, 2016, 2015), Nunavut (2010), South Shetlands and Antarctic Peninsula (2016). [See my introduction to "Arctic Circlings: A Nomadology" under “Artist Statement.”]
Winter Travels in East Greenland (March-May 2018) assembles photos from my travels and everyday adventures with Max Audibert, a hunter and teacher, who makes his home in the tiny settlement of Diilerilaaq on the edge of Sermilik Fjord.
Fall Travels in North Greenland (August-October 2024) presents a photo-series of the icescape in and around Ilulissat which I compiled during my artist residency with Arctic Culture Lab. (Under construction).
CONTACT
dianne.chisholm@ualberta.ca
780.757.9279 (landline) / 780.288.5746 (cell)
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https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/chisholm
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Ningerte, Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland
Near Diilerilaaq, East Greenland