The Ventisquero Hanging Glacier thunders into the valley below at Queulat National Park, a place where you hear power before you see it. The roar of cascading meltwater drowns out conversation, creating a sensory experience that transcends the visual. This is uncertainty made audible; the glacier's collapse accelerating with climate change, each summer bringing more dramatic meltwaters. The image captures not just falling water but the threshold moment when ice becomes liquid, solid becomes fluid, permanence becomes change.
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Dirk Collins is the flagship artist at Planet 5 Gallery, whose work defines preservation photography. Co-founder of Teton Gravity Research and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Collins brings 30 years of visual storytelling to fine art photography that celebrates mountain communities as preservation partners.
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Dirk Collins is the flagship artist at Planet 5 Gallery, whose work defines preservation photography. Co-founder of Teton Gravity Research and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Collins brings 30 years of visual storytelling to fine art photography that celebrates mountain communities as preservation partners.
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