Jasmine Rossi Photography

ICE - Berg ICE (H20) is an ongoing project that portrays the effects of GLOBAL WARMING.

Glaciers calve into the ocean, giant bergs float nimbly across Patagonian lakes, waves lick and gnaw at ice-bergs creating astounding shapes and forms. Tiny crystals lie on an Antarctic beach, deposited by the tides, blown into shape by the katabatic winds.

The result are abstract shapes and patterns in unrealistic colours, ephemeral sculptures created by the elements. But all this beauty is deceiving - it is death that we are looking at - , the final moments of an element (H20) in transformation, its regression from a solid to a liquid state.

Jasmine Rossi’s images present the beginning of a catastrophe. Like the perfect calm before a hurricane, or the glorious light illuminating the sky before a massive storm, the eerie beauty of the wondrous shapes and forms created by the melting ice and frozen in time by her camera are illusory. 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism
ICE - Green GREEN ICE is extremely rare. Like blue ice it is very old and dates back from a time when the planet was still pristine. Green ice includes microscopic algae and is a metaphor for the delicate composition of the ocean’s waters and the balance of the elements on the planet. 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism
ICE - Crystal TRANSPARENT ICE represents the final stage in the metamorphosis of disintegration from solid to liquid state. As it dissolves oxygen seeps between the cracks and it turns white and then transparent. Transparent ice is a metaphor for the final stages of destruction, for the dissolution of the natural order. 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism
ICE - Blue BLUE ICE is the most ancient ice. Flushed out from the innermost core of a glacier, the bluer the ice – the older it is – it may be hundreds or even thousands of years old. Blue ice was formed at a time when the poles had not yet been reached by man, and the world was still uncontaminated. Thus, blue ice is a metaphor for the purity lost. 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism
ICE - Black BLACK ICE, tainted by volcanic ash and rock, is a metaphor for pollution. As it slowly flows from the glacier it reminds us of filthy rivers and black clouds of toxic fumes emanating from chimneystacks in China or the former Soviet Union, where the sun never shines and nature is has been destroyed. Black is the future if we continue the reckless exploitation of our natural resources. 2011 Visual Arts, Photography, Photojournalism
Salt SALT follows Rossi’s ICE series. The artist ponders what would happen after the glaciers have melted, if global temperatures continue to increase? As water evaporates and lakes disappear…. Salt flats - massive evaporative basins that extend for miles – will appear as they already have in other times in the planet’s history.
 Salt has played a vital part in religious ritual in many cultures, symbolizing immutable, incorruptible purity, but if CO2 levels increase and global warming intensifies it will eventually cause our demise. 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism
Puna .The Puna is one of the few places in the world that man has not been able to modify, but instead has modified man. This desert plateau amidst the Andean range between Argentina, Chile and Bolivia has an average height of 4000 meters (13000 feet) above seal level, and the word Puna is also synonymous in this region for altitude sickness.

The Spanish conquistadores called it “el despoblado” - the uninhabited place. Yet the volcanoes of the Puna harbor some of the most important Inca sanctuaries in the world such as the Llullaillaco volcano where three perfectly mummified children were found by a National Geographic expedition in 1999.

During the mid 19th century “caravans of death” carried supplies from Argentina to the Chilean saltpeter mines in the Atacama Desert known as the most arid place on earth. The cold, the lack of water, and food, made this a grueling journey for man and beast alike, and the desert is littered with the remains of those animals that didn’t make it. 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism
Toxic Lagoon . 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism
Araucaria Photography - Fine Art Giclee pigment prints on bamboo paper 2011 Photography, Visual Arts, Photojournalism