Dan Holdsworth, danholdsworth.com. Continuous Topography (still), 2018
THIS ethereal image reveals a surreal, not-quite human view of the Argenti猫re Glacier in the Chamonix. Since 2014, the artist Dan Holdsworth has been making surveys of the region, sometimes employing helicopters and drones to capture hundreds of images of the ice sheet. These have now been digitally composited into one large moving image. The result is a shifting landscape of unprecedented topographic detail. Projected on two facing walls at the new Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, UK, the animation transforms photographic stills into a composite “point-cloud鈥. Using new experimental approaches to photogrammetry, the coordinates were extracted from…
Article amended on 8 January 2019
The image was in fact of the Argenti猫re Glacier in the Chamonix region of France and the text has been rewritten to correct this.
