Suspended grace: a sleeping sperm whale and her calf
Paul Nicklen
With a whole stomach – look closely and see the tents of the deep salary he estimates, which removes his mouth – this calf is nearby.
This picture, named Suspended gracephotographer took Paul Nicklen and a host of images shown in the fair picture Picture of london this week. It failed peace, but Nicklen felt a true mix of emotions when he brought it to Dominica in 2019.
“Even if my lungs burned and my brain tried to inspire breath from the face 15 meters away, I had to stay calm,” he said. “At that moment, I focused on breathing, framing and floating. I didn’t get rid of fear, but I was ripped.”
As he focused himself, a feeling of “strange mixed with something more” came to him. “There is a kind of joy in this accepted by their rhythm for a few times,” says Nicklen. “Over time, that happiness deepens something heavier. I think about the risks that cannot endure.
Picture London is happening in Somerset House from 15 to 18 May. Nicklen’s work was shown in Contemporary Hilton, showing Marine Biologist’s photo Cristina Mittermeier – including this evocative shot from Bentyy, Madagascar, in 2008, called in 2008, called Mandela wash. As the bright clothes dry on the ruined land, two consecutive cows stand near the dry bed of the Mandare River.

Mandare laundry: Mandare River’s dry bed in Madagascar
Cristina Mittermeier
Ten years of the year, Mittermeier remembers his thoughts to get the shot were filled with time. “Not only in pain – a tropical fever – but by guilt. It’s not going to go there, but for leaving,” he said. “Families in this village have no way to escape drought. No backups, no alternative routes, no cork turns off.
Today, those feelings show “a kind of respect” for the perseverance of local people there “and a deepest uncontrollable scene is more common, more permanent”, he said.
“I think of the power of that cloth curve, which is bright in the dust, and how the safety here is a garment, a food, a cup of water at one time,” as mittermeier. “This is a record of drought, yes, but also the decisions made by the distance suffering and escaping.”
Below is the shot of Nicklen, Ephemeral palacetaken at the Antarctic Peninsula in 2012

Epetheral Palace: an iceberg on the Antarctic Peninsula in 2012
Paul Nicklen
An unexpected guest shows the final shot from Nicklen, Face to faceTaken in Svalbard, Norway, in 2008

Face face: a close encounter with a polar bear in Norway
Paul Nicklen
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