PIERRES & DIAMANTS D'ISLANDE

Diamond Beach, Iceland. Ice, thousands of years old, breaks from the glaciers and washes up on black volcanic sand. The series photographs these icebergs using the full toolkit of luxury and jewelry photography, as if they were diamonds. Where humanity grants diamonds eternity, our real wealth, priceless, melts on the black sand within hours. The series asks what photography can actually preserve: it saves only an image, never the thing itself. Printed on water-soluble paper and mounted to a block of ice, the prints melt in turn during the exhibition, warmed by the bodies of the people looking at them. Every one of those icebergs is already gone.