Ghost glaciers: the transcendent Anthropocene – in pictures

 Mount Baker Expedition. Photograph: Funch/Peter Funch

Peter Funch’s latest photo-book, The Imperfect Atlas, explores human impact on the environment by using a technique invented at the height of the industrial revolution – RGB tri-colour separation

The Imperfect Atlas is published by TBW Books
Thu 20 Feb 2020


Funch used vintage postcards as a model for his images of Washington’s Mount Baker to capture the effects of glacial recession. ‘Photography is an interesting tool since it is so dependent on the reality in front of us, while at the same time it can be used to describe something so general that everyone can relate to it,’ he says."



The book includes postcards, such as the ones seen here. Featuring images captured during Funch’s trips through the Northern Cascade mountain range in the US, it is an imperfect re-creation of landscapes and wilderness

Funch used maps and satellite imagery to locate the position where the postcard images were created, then brought in the RGB process described above to create a magical, almost Technicolor effect. Here he depicted Thunder Glacier in Washington

SEE ALL THE PHOTOS HERE